Vijay Pandurangan is a Canadian computer scientist and internet entrepreneur and expert on online privacy, known for his work in scientific software education and early technical contributions at Google.
12 Facts About Vijay Pandurangan
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Vijay Pandurangan co-founded Mitro in 2013 which was then sold to Twitter.
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Vijay Pandurangan then became head of the Twitter New York engineering office.
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Vijay Pandurangan posted about the high use of Google Hangouts inside Twitter and their usefulness to remote teams.
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Vijay Pandurangan departed Twitter in 2016 along with several other senior Twitter executives as the company struggled to turn itself around in the face of declining user growth.
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In October 2016 Vijay Pandurangan was hired as entrepreneur-in-residence at Benchmark and he relocated from New York to San Francisco.
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Vijay Pandurangan is an occasional guest writer for Wired and has written on topics such as the success of Snapchat's success in the context of Twitter's stumbles.
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Since 2022, Vijay Pandurangan has been an adjunct professor at Stanford University, teaching Software Engineering for Scientists.
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Vijay Pandurangan gave a keynote speech in 2022 at the 14th Annual Alberta Prostate Cancer Research Initiative Fall Symposium in Banff, Alberta on how better software engineering improves scientific and medical research.
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In 2023, Vijay Pandurangan gave a talk at the Pacific Systems Biology conference on the impact of poor software engineering on science.
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Vijay Pandurangan is regularly cited in the press for his various projects in big data.
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Vijay Pandurangan conducted an expose in 2016 showing that Google's SMS-based account recovery can reduce the security of a Google account.