Another Google Engineer Who Has Succeeded After Leaving The Company: Sean Knapp!
Google has become known throughout the tech sector as one of the biggest companies from which engineers with good ideas may launch a business of their own. Perhaps that perception developed because as Google defined itself in the early days of its company, its leadership did not want to be distracted by side projects. Google did not start out as a company that was trying to be everything to everyone. As such, the creative engineers that Google hired to build its revolutionary search engine often had ideas that they could only act upon when no longer with Google. Sean Knapp was one of those engineers with a vision that did not quite fit Google’s plans.
Sean Knapp is the Co-founder of Ooyala where he serves on the Board of Directors. Knapp also serves Ooyala, an online video technology company, as the company’s Chief Technology Officer. As Chief Technology Officer and President of Technology for Ooyala, Sean Knapp oversees the small Internet company’s entire engineering department. Knapp is also responsible for the products that Ooyala engineers develop for the platform and, given how the company has been growing, he has his hands full!
Like many software engineers who went right to work for Google, Sean Knapp studied at California’s prestigious Stanford University. As both an undergraduate student from 1999 – 2003 and a graduate student until 2004, Sean Knapp was active in the Cross Country and Track and Field programs at Stanford. Far from being a jock, though, Knapp earned his Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science and stayed at Stanford to work on his Master’s. In 2004, Sean Knapp earned his Master of Science degree in Computer Science with a focus on Human Computer Interaction.
Immediately after completing his Master’s work, Sean Knapp went to work for Google as a software engineer. Within months, he and Matthew Waddell had devised a system that changed the way search results were organized, a development for which the two men still hold the patent! As a Senior Software Engineer, Sean Knapp was part of the founding team for iGoogle. Just shy of his three year anniversary with Google, Knapp decided to strike out on his own. Leaving Google, Sean Knapp and his friends founded Ooyala.
Even though Ooyala has kept him busy since 2007, Sean Knapp continues to develop programs and companies within the tech sector. As an advisor and investor in at least six successful start-ups, like Adku which was bought up by Groupon, Knapp might be focused on Ooyala, but he continues to prove that he has a lot more to contribute to the way business is done on the Internet!
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