Facebook snaps Google Chrome OS Architect and VMware VP
Facebook has hired one of the key members of Google Chrome OS open source project, Matthew Papakipos and VMware Vice President Jocelyn Goldfein into its engineering team.
Papakipos was the Engineering Director of Google’s Chrome OS Operating System and WebGL HTML 5 Open Web Platform. He was responsible for creating, leading and was a key architect of Chrome OS project and also lead Chrome GPU hardware project. Papakipos was inducted in Google through the acquisition of a software development company, PeakStream in 2007 where he was the co-founder, CTO and Vice President of Engineering. Prior to that he worked as director of architecture at NVIDIA.
On leaving Google, Papakipos wrote on his Twitter tweet.
“Now that Chrome OS & WebGL are in good shape, it’s time for something new. I’m going to work @ Facebook! Love the product and team. Woot!”
Jocelyn Goldfein was also one the key members of VMware where he was Vice President and general manager of the desktop business unit.
Facebook said in a statement today -
“We’ve landed two accomplished, senior people to join the Facebook engineering team — Matthew Papakipos and Jocelyn Goldfein. Both are about as accomplished as they come and we can’t wait for them to hit the ground running as key players on the team.”
This is a big blow to both Google and VMware loosing most prominent people from their company and especially Google whose Chrome OS is set for a launch this fall. Papakipos will be third most key Google employee leaving the company for Facebook after Erick Tseng who was project manager on the Android mobile OS and Sheryl Sandberg who was vice president of sales and operations at Google who later became Chief Operating Officer at Facebook.
[Via TechCrunch]
