Vic Gundotra

Vic Gundotra

Vic Gundotra, formerly a General Manager of Platform Evangelism at Microsoft and a 15-year Microsoft employee, joined Google in June 2007 after taking a one year delay working on charitable endeavors because of Microsoft employee non-compete agreement. His job was promoting Microsoft APIs and platforms to be used by independent developers. Before his departure from Microsoft he helped develop a strategy for Windows Live online services to compete with Google's web-based software applications. [cite web|url=http://slate.com/id/2144896|title=Where's My Google PC?|first=Paul|last=Boutin|date=2006-06-03|publisher=Slate|authorlink=Paul Boutin (journalist)] Gundotra was also the person that originally hired Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble.

Currently Vic Gundotra is Vice President of Engineering at Google. His responsibilities include:

Google's Mobile efforts, including all applications for iPhone, BlackBerry, Nokia, Windows Mobile and other platforms. Google's Developer efforts, including OpenSocial, Gadgets, Gears, Android, and the more than 40 product APIs Google exposes.

Awards

In 2003 Gundotra was honored by Technology Review magazine in Top 100 Young Innovator list (age under 35) for his contribution to Microsoft .NET Framework. [cite web|url=http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/Profile.aspx?Cand=T&TRID=291|title=Vic Gundotra, 34. Sparked Microsofts change to .Net|publisher=Technology Review]

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