Louis Perrochon
VP Engineering
Louis Perrochon
VP Engineering
Mountain View, California
Overview
Work Experience
VP Engineering Marketplaces
2014 - 2017
Setting the technology vision and strategy for developing multiscreen shopping, selling, payments and transaction capabilities along with engineering leadership over customer service engagement tools and new commerce advertising platforms.
Senior Director, Engineering
2003 - 2014
2011 Maps for Business - Engineering Lead Maps for Business includes Maps APIs, Automotive, Satellite/Aerial Imagery, Google Earth, Google Earth Engine, Google Maps Engine, Geo for Good and Edu. Led 100's of engineers on three continents. Enabled several new product initiatives, including Google Maps in cars, significant improvements in image quality (e.g. cloud free), Google's SaaS maps platform, and the re-birth of MyMaps as GME Lite, as well as significant revenue increase. Also have grown a strong team of senior leads, with wide support from many new managers and Tech Leads. 2010 Android Market - Engineering Lead Android Market (now called "Play") is where Android users acquire their apps. Expanded to ~26 additional countries 2007-2010 YouTube, Engineering Lead YouTube is the third biggest Web site in the world, serving (in 2010) 2B videos a day and receiving 24h of new uploads every minute. Led 100's of engineers on three continents. Leading various areas from video processing to new initiatives like YouTube Rentals or the YouTube TV experience. Responsible and accountable for all engineering development and operation of the site, including user facing, partner facing, and advertiser facing aspects of the site, APIs for mobile and other devices, ContentID, and all backend/infrastructure work. 2004-2007 Checkout, Engineering Lead, co-founder Checkout (now called Google Pay) is Google's global consumer payment product. I co-founded the effort and lead all engineering development and operations, including Web front ends for users and merchants, APIs for merchant integration, and the backend/infrastructure to run a global payment system. Close interaction with other execs in Finance, Sales, etc. 2003-2005 Enterprise (Search Appliance) - Engineering Lead The Google Search Appliance delivers Google search in a box for the Intranet. I lead all engineering, including software development, hardware and mechanical engineering.
Managing Partner
2011 - 2013
Meetpoint is the publisher of the board game Startup Fever: http://www.startupfever.com/
Technical Lead / Director
1999 - 2003
Engineering lead on various professional services engagements building digital businesses, including building the Web site for the UK National Lottery.
Research
1996 - 1999
Computer Systems Laboratory. Working on Complex Event Processing - real-time pattern matching of complex, inter-related events at large scale.
Research
1992 - 1996
Institute for Information System in the Department of Computer Science: Internet/Legacy System Integration