Director, Developer Relations at Google
San Francisco, California
Director, Developer Relations
San Francisco Bay Area
Engineering Manager, Google Analytics
June 2011 to June 2012
Mountain View, CA
Web Performance Engineer
May 2012 to October 2019
Mountain View, CA
W3C
Co-chair of the W3C Web Performance working group
PostRank
Founder & CTO
January 2007 to June 2011
Waterloo, ON, Canada
ForteHost
Founder
January 2002 to July 2007
Waterloo, ON, Canada
Overseeing a range of efforts focused on enabling a thriving ecosystem of fast, secure, and engaging content on the open web: enabling and supporting tools and platforms for publishing on the web; educating site owners on how to be successful with Google Search; developing primitives and tools to help site owners measure, optimize, and improve delivery of... Overseeing a range of efforts focused on enabling a thriving ecosystem of fast, secure, and engaging content on the open web: enabling and supporting tools and platforms for publishing on the web; educating site owners on how to be successful with Google Search; developing primitives and tools to help site owners measure, optimize, and improve delivery of great user experiences.
What company does Ilya Grigorik work for?
Ilya Grigorik works for Google
What is Ilya Grigorik's role at Google?
Ilya Grigorik is Director, Developer Relations
What industry does Ilya Grigorik work in?
Ilya Grigorik works in the Internet industry.
Who are Ilya Grigorik's colleagues?
Ilya Grigorik's colleagues are Chris Lilley, Tal Ater, Aaron Parecki, Antonio Olmo Titos, Jason Pamental, Benfeng Chen, Ian Jacobs, Judy Zhu, and Jeff Jaffe
💼 Past Experience
Ilya Grigorik has been working in the software industry for over six years now. Grigorik started working at Google in August of 2011 as an engineering manager for Google Analytics. One year later, Grigorik was made the engineering manager for Web Performance. After three years as the engineering manager for both Web Performance and Web Performance Technology, Grigorik was made the engineer in charge of building the faster, safer, and more user-friendly internet.Grigorik has been involved in a few projects that have had a significant impact on the internet. One such project was the development of the Chrome User Experience Report. In this project, Grigorik led a team of engineers who redesigned the Chrome user experience. The goal of this project was to make Chromefeel more user-friendly so that more people would use it. Another project he worked on was the development of the Firefox User Experience. In this project, Grigorik led a team of engineers who redesigned Firefox’s user experience. These projects helped pave the way for Firefox to be more user-friendly and successful.Grigorik has also given a few talks and workshops on the internet. His most notable talk is a 30-minute talk he gave in July of 2019 called "High Performance Browser Networking." In this talk, Grigorik shares his experience in developing browser APIs to help developers observe and improve web application performance. In another talk he gave in October of 2018, Grigorik shared his experience on the development of the Firefox User Experience. This talk helped teach people how to design their own user experiences in Firefox. Additionally, he also gave a talk called "Building a faster, safer, and more user-friendly internet through work on browser standards, protocol and transport optimization, and better developer tooling and education." This talk taught people how to build fast and user-friendly internet applications with standard web technologies.
🎓 Education
Ilya Grigorik is a Russian computer scientist who has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo. Grigorik specializes in theoretical computer science and has worked on large-scale, high-performance computer systems. Grigorik has also been a membot user for the Russian forum dc.net since 2008.
💡 Technical & Interpersonal Skills
Education:Ilya Grigorik holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech. Ilya Grigorik also has several years of experience as a software engineer and product manager.
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