Harvey Jones
Director of Engineering at Google
- Role
- Director of Engineering at Google
- Location
- Norwalk, CT, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
Experience
Director of Engineering
Sep 2007 — Present · New York, NY, US
Maps Consumer Journeys (2023-present): Engineering lead for directions and navigation (driving/walking/cycling/transit), Local (place lookup, open-ended place search) and personal content (saving, sharing) functionality within Google Maps.Search in Google Maps (2019-present): Structured an organization responsible for all user-facing place search functionality on Maps. A/B test new functionality, surface new data, optimize backend and frontend latency of our product.google.com Local Search UI (20••••19): Our team rewrote the product to be AJAX-interactive, drove major latency reductions, surfaced new metadata, syndicated data to first and second-party clients, and drove the first phase of microservice-ization of search technology.google.com UI (20••••12): Revamped the display of search results, added metadata, contributed to the ranking algorithm.
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Master of Engineering (MEng)
2002 — 2007
Skills
- Computer Science
- Distributed Systems
- Java
- Javascript
- Software Development
- Python
- Algorithms
- C++
- C
- Software Engineering
- Html
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