William Strathearn

I am currently employed by Google Inc. as a Software Engineer on the Knol team.

I arrived in California from my home state of Pennsylvania after high school. I attended De Anza College in Silicon Valley where I first became interested in programming and the Internet. During an internship at NASA Ames Research Center, I worked on a initiative to record, store and stream video of astronauts and NASA Events into K-12 classrooms.

I transferred from De Anza to U.C. Santa Cruz where I received my Bachelors degree in Computer Science.  While at UCSC and working part-time for the web development group, I wrote many of the school's the internal and external web applications still used by students today.

I attended graduate school in the department of Computer Science at U.C. Santa Barbara, where I learned the tenants of distributed systems and Internet service clusters. I completed my Masters Thesis on a method to dynamically provision resources within large Internet service clusters.

Since then, I've bounced around various jobs in the government defense, intelligence and Internet search engine industries. At each change in position, I've gradually inched closer to my dream job of working at Google.