Shiva Shivakumar is an entrepreneur that worked for Google between 2001 and 2010.Narayanan Shivakumar's biography He was a Vice President of Engineering and Distinguished Entrepreneur, helped build Google's R&D centers at Seattle-Kirkland, Zurich, and Bangalore;Seattle Times he and his teams launched AdSense, Dremel, Sitemapshttps://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/06/webmaster-friendly.html Announcing Google Sitemaps ,Announcing sitemaps.org, a web standard supported by Google-Microsoft-Yahoo Google Search Appliance and other key products.
Before he joined Google in its early days, he obtained his PhD in computer science from Stanford University. His advisor was Prof. Hector Garcia-Molina. Before Google, he cofounded Gigabeat.com, an online music startup acquired by Napster.Napster Dances To A New Gigabeat
References Shivakumar's keynote at Google Developer Day, Beijing June '07.
External links Shivakumar's personal webpage.