Jörg Heilig is vice president of engineering at Google, responsible for the Cloud developer experience. Earlier at Google he has been leading display and video ads engineering, including the Google Display Network, Youtube monetization, and the DoubleClick family of advertising platform products. Even before he worked on scaling Gmail to millions of users.
Jörg joined Google in 2004 from Sun Microsystems, where he was the senior engineering director for OpenOffice.org in Hamburg, Germany. Previously, he headed engineering at Star Finanz GmbH developing "StarMoney," a widely distributed home banking application in Germany. He started his career as an IT consultant at Andersen Consulting after earning a diploma in computer science from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
Specialties: Cloud computing, display advertising, distributed software engineering, storage systems
VP Engineering, Cloud Developer Experience @ Make developing and deploying on Google's Cloud easy, fun, and efficient. From June 2014 to Present (1 year 7 months) San Francisco Bay AreaVP Engineering, Display and Video Ads @ Engineering for Google Display Network, DoubleClick Platform Products (Ad Exchange, DDM, DFP), and Youtube Monetization From February 2007 to May 2014 (7 years 4 months) San Francisco Bay AreaEngineering Director @ Led Gmail engineering. Deeply involved in performance, scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency of one of the world's largest email services. From July 2004 to February 2007 (2 years 8 months) Senior Engineering Director @ Responsible for OpenOffice.org/StarOffice engineering based in Hamburg, Germany. From January 2000 to June 2004 (4 years 6 months) Engineering Director @ Co-creator of StarMoney, Germany's leading home banking software. Responsible for early technology and buy vs. make decisions. Wrote substantial pieces of the code base. Managed all of engineering and QA. From June 1996 to December 1999 (3 years 7 months) Consultant @ Technology consultant working an various interesting and novel projects From March 1995 to May 1996 (1 year 3 months)
Master, Computer Science @ Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) From 1989 to 1995 Jörg Heilig is skilled in: Display Advertising, Distributed Systems, Cluster, Scalability, Storage Systems, Big Data, Software Engineering, Monetization, Computer Science, Algorithms, Cloud Computing, Software Development, Product Management, Enterprise Software