Paul Gauthier
CTO at Groupon
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Industry
- Internet
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Paul Gauthier's Overview
- Current
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- CTO at Groupon
- Past
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- Founding CTO at Ludic Labs
- Board Member at Xoopit
- Founding CTO at Inktomi
- Education
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- University of Washington
- University of California, Berkeley
- Dalhousie University
- Recommendations
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- Connections
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337 connections
Paul Gauthier's Summary
Paul Gauthier is the CTO of Groupon, working to scale and enhance the premier global platform for local e-commerce.
Previously, Paul was a co-founder and CTO of Ludic Labs where he designed and developed a new class of online advertising, loyalty and promotional tools for local businesses.
Paul was also a co-founder and CTO of Inktomi Corporation, a pioneering internet technology company. Paul invented and developed Inktomi's search engine, the first commercial search engine based on distributed-memory parallel computation, allowing it to scale with the rapid growth of the Internet. Until recently, Paul's work lived on as Yahoo! Search.
Paul has conducted academic research on Internet systems, distributed computing and search technology in the graduate programs of the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Washington.
Paul is an active angel investor and advisor to numerous technology companies. Past investments include Xoopit, Teracent, and IndexTank which were acquired by Yahoo, Google and LinkedIn.
Paul Gauthier's Experience
Paul Gauthier's Education
University of Washington
Masters, Computer Science PhD Program
2002 – 2006
At UW, I conducted doctorate level academic research on:
- personalized web search
- cryptographic protocols for fairness in p2p networks
- large scale content distribution using physical broadcast mediums
- using virtual machines to deploy software and services
University of California, Berkeley
Computer Science PhD Program
1994 – 1996
At UCB, I conducted doctorate level academic research on:
- web search
- parallel computing on commodity hardware
- optimization of parallel processing communication patterns
Dalhousie University
Bachelors of Science, Computer Science
1990 – 1994
During my undergraduate research, I built the first search engine for content located on ftp servers.
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