Tech Lead / Manager, Google Maps
Greater New York City Area
- Current
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- Tech Lead / Manager at Google
- Member at Apache Software Foundation
- Past
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- VP, Apache Lenya at Apache Software Foundation
- Software Engineer at Endoxon
- Board Member at OSCOM
- VP/Architect at Digitas
- COO at Wyona
- Cofounder at KAYWA
- Project Management Comittee at Xaraya
- Team Leader at KPMG Consulting
- Project Management Comittee at PostNuke CMS
- Project Manager at Gateinfo Ltd.
- Teaching Assistant at University of Zurich
- Junior Software Engineer at SQE Services AG
- Education
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- University of Zurich
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Gregor J. Rothfuss’s Summary
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Gregor works on the next generation of mapping technologies at Google.
Gregor also serves as VP, Apache Lenya at the Apache Software Foundation and is a co-founder of the Open Source Content Management Organization (OSCOM).
Gregor J. Rothfuss’s Specialties:
Web Architecture, Scalability, Mapping, Open Source
Gregor J. Rothfuss’s Experience
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Tech Lead / Manager
Google
(Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)
December 2006 — Present (3 years )
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Member
Apache Software Foundation
(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Internet industry)
December 2005 — Present (4 years )
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VP, Apache Lenya
Apache Software Foundation
(Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)
March 2003 — August 2009 (6 years 6 months)
* Mangaged donation of Apache Lenya, an opens ource Java/XML Content Management System to the Apache Software Foundation
* Helped bootstrap a community around Apache Lenya
* Developed in Java/XSLT for Apache Lenya, based on Apache Cocoon, an XML processing framework
* Chaired the Apache Lenya Project Management Comittee -
Software Engineer
Endoxon
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 6 months)
* Worked on the backend for a web mapping service in PHP, Bash, Ruby, MySQL. Endoxon was acquired by Google in December 2006 to get access to this technology.
* Wrote feed importer, deployment mechanisms
* Designed new XML feed formats
* Seeded external developer relations
* Improved performance on the importer iteratively, by 7x -
Board Member
OSCOM
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2002 — September 2006 (4 years 1 month)
* Organized two conferences in the US and one in Europe, all profitable
* Helped to raise awareness for Open Source CMS by writing articles, speaking at conferences and providing analysis -
VP/Architect
Digitas
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; DTAS; Internet industry)
June 2004 — June 2005 (1 year 1 month)
* Managed rapid application development of $2.8 M personalized client letter publishing tool; creating a platform connecting business units with publishing services to prospective and existing clients, improving the overall client experience by reducing enrollment fulfillment error rate by 80%
* Reduced waste/obsolescence rate of collateral by 75% and diminished creative publishing costs by 50% for an annual savings of $3.4 M
* Provided Apache Cocoon expertise to three Architects and seven developers across three time zones -
COO
Wyona
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
December 2002 — June 2005 (2 years 7 months)
* Started and ran US practice
* Grew revenue 200% in two years
* Led projects for customers from financial services, universities and publishing
* Developed CMS solutions based on Apache Cocoon / Apache Lenya using Java, XSLT, RelaxNG and JavaScript -
Cofounder
KAYWA
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2003 — December 2003 (7 months)
* Responsible for the launch of the KAYWA platform, the first Moblog platform in Switzerland
* Created and executed marketing strategy -
Project Management Comittee
Xaraya
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2002 — August 2003 (1 year 1 month)
* Project co-founder
* Implemented distributed SCM with Bitkeeper (one of the largest Bitkeeper users at the time)
* Built up the Xaraya brand from 0 to 2 million mentions on Google -
Team Leader
KPMG Consulting
(Computer Software industry)
February 1998 — December 2002 (4 years 11 months)
* Responsible for P/L of Emerging Technologies Group
* Grew revenue from 0 to CHF 500K / month
* Managed 15 interns
* Developed intranet applications for 1600 users in .NET and ASP
* Helped establish network security lab and worked on penetration testing projects
* Evaluated emerging technologies for the broader use in the consulting practice -
Project Management Comittee
PostNuke CMS
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 2001 — August 2002 (1 year 2 months)
* Developed PostNuke core architecture in PHP/MySQL
* Responsible for technical operations (web site, IRC network, development environment)
* Developed XML-RPC functionality for PostNuke
* Helped build Postnuke brand -
Project Manager
Gateinfo Ltd.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
June 2001 — October 2001 (5 months)
Bangkok, Thailand
* Reengineered a VB legacy application
* Coached 3 junior developers in architecture, coding style
* Extracted business logic from VB application and wrote reusable COM components -
Teaching Assistant
University of Zurich
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
September 1997 — July 2000 (2 years 11 months)
* Taught courses in Software Engineering and IT
* Volunteered at a student ISP in system administration and end user support
* Implemented a VRML generator in Java
* Organized and conducted a lecture series on Web Services, with participants from IBM, Sun, Microsoft and others -
Junior Software Engineer
SQE Services AG
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 1993 — August 1997 (4 years )
* Implemented internet connectivity using SLIP and BBS
* System administrator for a commercial BBS
* Developed telephony applications on MacOS 7
* Developed shopping carts using FileMaker
* Wrote a weekly computing newsletter
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