Greg Linden

Past

• Principal Research Software Engineer at Microsoft, Live Labs
• Founder & CEO at Findory.com
• Senior Manager & Principal Software Engineer at Amazon.com

• Lead Developer & Senior Software Engineer at Amazon.com

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Education

• Stanford Business School
• University of Washington
• University of California, San Diego

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Industry

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Greg Linden’s Experience

• Principal Research Software Engineer

  Microsoft, Live Labs

  (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  January 2008 — April 2009 (1 year 4 months)

  Worked with projects and people across the company, including search relevance, advertising relevance, online experimentation, personalized search, personalized advertising, recommender systems, large scale data analysis, incubations, project management, product planning, and corporate strategy.

• Founder & CEO

  Findory.com

  (Computer Software industry)

  October 2003 — November 2007 (4 years 2 months)

  Founded and built Findory.com, a personalized news and search website. Developed the core technology and architected the underlying systems for high performance and reliability.
  
  Drove growth through viral marketing to become a popular website with over 100k unique visitors and 5M page views per month. Findory.com received press coverage in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Time Magazine, PC World, The Times (UK), Spiegel (DE), Seattle PI, Seattle Times, Puget Sound Business Journal, KPLU, and Slate.
  
  Managed and executed on all aspects of the business, including founding the company, business development, PR, marketing, project management, R&D, software development, system administration, and database administration.

• Senior Manager & Principal Software Engineer

  Amazon.com

  (Public Company; AMZN; Internet industry)

  March 1999 — February 2002 (3 years )

  Led the personalization technology team, a group renowned at Amazon.com for rapid development and deployment of highly innovative features.
  
  Drove the development of novel recommendations and personalization features used by millions of customers worldwide, producing several hundred million dollars annually in revenue.
  
  Built teams to develop new products from initial concept through final delivery. Defined business objectives and methods for measurement and analysis.

• Lead Developer & Senior Software Engineer

  Amazon.com

  (Public Company; AMZN; Internet industry)

  February 1997 — February 1999 (2 years 1 month)

  Primary developer and designer of the Amazon.com recommendations engine.
  
  Inventor on ten patents on recommendations, search, and personalization.
  
  Optimized and extended the Similarities feature ("Customers who bought X also bought").
  
  Key contributor to the overall architecture, design, performance analysis, and optimization of the Amazon.com web servers and website databases.

Greg Linden’s Education

• Stanford Business School

  MS , Management , September 2002 — June 2003

  Stanford Sloan Program

• University of Washington

  MS , Computer Science , 1994 — 1996

  PhD Program in Artificial Intelligence

• University of California, San Diego

  BA , Computer Science & Political Science , 1990 — 1994