San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
- Past
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- Two Pizza Team Lead (don't ask) at Amazon.com
- Software Engineer, Tech Lead at Junglee
- Engineering Intern at Hughes Aircraft Co. Space & Communications Division
- Education
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- University of California, Berkeley
- Cornell University
- Connections
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- Industry
- Internet
David Bailey’s Experience
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Senior Staff Software Engineer
Google
(Public Company; Internet industry)
August 2004 — Present (5 years)
I lead technology development for Universal Search (see http://searchengineland.com/070831-085631.php) and earlier built some search suggestion features like you see on this query: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=contractions.
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Two Pizza Team Lead (don't ask)
Amazon.com
(Public Company; Internet industry)
September 1998 — August 2004 (6 years)
Managed a team that built search engine software, AJAX-style user interfaces, and metrics systems that improved search on the Amazon.com website. Led a large-scale effort, with much direct guidance from CEO Jeff Bezos, to redesign the Amazon navigational experience in a multifaceted search-centric way.
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Software Engineer, Tech Lead
Junglee
(Internet industry)
April 1998 — September 1998 (6 months)
Extended and managed a natural-language information extraction system supporting a comparison shopping engine.
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Engineering Intern
Hughes Aircraft Co. Space & Communications Division
(Defense & Space industry)
June 1988 — August 1990 (2 years 3 months)
Built ground software to monitor performance of the Magellan spacecraft sent to Venus to map the surface with side-scanning radar (and magnetic tape drives!).
David Bailey’s Education
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University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D. , Computer Science , August 1990 — October 1997
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Cornell University
B.S. , Computer Science , August 1986 — May 1990
