Jonathan Betz
Engineering Manager, Google.org
Jonathan is an Engineering Manager in Google's New York City office, where he leads teams that focus on Crisis Response, Elections, and other novel applications of technology to civics.
Jonathan came to New York City in 2003 as one of the earliest engineers in Google's NYC office, where he focused on extracting structured data from the web, work that led to filing 18 patents on the topic. From 2008 through 2012, he held various roles as an executive engineering leader in New York startups including Rent the Runway and Yext, building engineering teams and shipping lots of code.
Jonathan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, with a double major in Cognitive Science, from Carnegie Mellon University.
Andrew Hogue
Head of Search, Foursquare
Andrew Hogue is the Head of Search at foursquare, where he is responsible for big data applications like Explore, Radar, and Venue Search. Prior to foursquare he spent seven years at Google, where he led the Structured Data team, working on applications like question answering, sentiment analysis, and local search.
Andrew holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science from MIT, where his research focused on pattern recognition and machine learning. He holds several foursquare mayorships in New Jersey, where he lives with his wife and three children.
Dominic Preuss
General Manager, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Dominic is a technologist and New Yorker living in Silicon Valley. He is currently a General Manager at AWS. Previously, he was a Director of Product Management working on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). He also held positions at SecondMarket, Trilogy Software, Meetup, a Dow Jones/IAC joint venture and Google AdWords where he was the original product manager for local advertising.
Dominic holds a degree in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University.
Jeff Reynar
Jeff was previously CTO of Sulia and Head of Technology at AOL. Prior to joining AOL in 2010, he co-founded DBT Labs, which built a social search service integrated with Facebook and Twitter. Before that, Jeff worked at Google, initially as the first product manager outside headquarters then as an engineering manager. As a PM he worked on vertical search for blogs, products, local and web search. As an engineering manager, Jeff worked on the search user interface, information extraction, sentiment analysis and question answering. His final role at Google was to co-found and lead the internal startup that built Google Squared. Jeff also worked for 5 years at Microsoft where he led the Microsoft Word team, built a platform for semantic category annotation and integrated speech recognition into the Office applications.
Jeff earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.
Steve Schirripa
Distinguished Software Engineer, Google
Steve Schirripa is a Distinguished Engineer in Google’s New York City engineering center and is currently working on fleet optimization, dynamic workload movement, and ML capacity. He was formerly the File Systems Tech Lead, covering a number of storage systems, including Colossus, the highly scalable, distributed file system that replaces GFS and underpins Google’s storage, both internal and external. Prior to that, he had a dual role as Technical Lead and Manager for Colossus and Bigtable, while also contributing to data center design. Earlier in his 20+ year career at Google, Steve worked on a wide variety of successful projects, including in search quality/ranking, Mobile Web Search, Desktop Search, and real-time crawling and indexing. He has earned three prestigious EMG/OC Awards for both Impact and Innovation.
Steve earned his BS in Computer Science and Mathematics at Rutgers University and a Masters in Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon. He resides in New Jersey with his wife and 3 children.