Craig Silverstein | |
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Born | 1972 or 1973 |
Alma mater |
Harvard University Stanford University |
Employers | |
Spouse | Mary Obelnicki |
Craig Silverstein (born 1972 or 1973) is a software engineer and was the first person employed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Google, having studied for a PhD alongside them (though he dropped out and never earned his degree) at Stanford University. [1] [2] [3] He graduated from Harvard and was admitted to Phi Beta Kappa. [4]
In 1993, he won ACM-ICPC programming contest as a member of Harvard University team. [5]
His PhD supervisor was Rajeev Motwani. [2] He served as Google’s director of technology. He resigned from the company in February 2012, to work at the Khan Academy. [6]
He and his wife, Mary Obelnicki, are signers of The Giving Pledge. [7] [8]