[Colloq] TODAY~ Special Presentation - A Day in the Life of Google Software Engineer Jim Miller - Tuesday March 12 - 1:35pm - 108 WVH

[Jessica Biron]

A Day in the Life of a Google Software Engineer, or, Life After Graduation 

Jim Miller - Staff Software Engineer at Google 
Tuesday, March 12th 
1:35pm 108 WVH 

Abstract: 

What's a day like for a software engineer at Google? How does it compare to a company like Microsoft? What's the difference between doing industrial research, University research, or corporate development? How easy is it to move from one role to another, one job to another, one company to another, one industry to another? How much does a software developer use skills learned as an undergraduate, a PhD student, or a professor? What did you wish you'd taken time to learn but didn't? Have you ever wondered about any of these things? Come by for an open, informal, and question-driven discussion of life after graduation ("in the real world"?). And bring your questions! 


Bio: 

Jim Miller is a Staff Software Engineer at Google's Seattle office, working on their cloud platform offerings. Prior to that, Jim spent over ten years as an architect on Microsoft's Common Language Runtime, and three years as director of the World Wide Web Consortium's Technology and Society Domain where he worked on such issues as Internet commerce, security, child protection, and privacy protection. He's taught at Brandeis University, MIT, and internally for a number of computer companies. He holds a PhD from MIT in Computer Science, an MEng from the University of Alaska (Fairbanks) in Engineering Management, and an SB from MIT in Materials Science and Engineering. In his spare time, Jim has been a professional opera chorister, and is currently an amateur singer, commuting bicyclist and avid knitter.