Urs Hoelzle

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Urs Hölzle is senior vice president of operations and Google Fellow at Google. As one of Google's first ten employees, he has shaped much of Google's development processes and infrastructure.

Before joining Google, he was an Associate Professor of Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara. He received a master's degree in computer science from ETH Zurich in 1988 and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship that same year. In 1994, he earned a Ph.D. from Stanford University, where his research focused on programming languages and their efficient implementation.[1]

He is credited for creating Google Gulp for April Fools day 2005 [2].

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  1. ^ Google: Management Team
  2. ^ Google Gulp
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