Niall O'Driscoll is Vice President
of Engineering at Alexa Internet. In this position, O'Driscoll manages
a team of engineers responsible for the gathering, storing, mining and
serving of 300 Terabytes of data across Alexa's farm of Linux servers. O'Driscoll
holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, a M.S. in Mechanical
Engineering from Columbia University, and an MBA from University
College Dublin. O'Driscoll co-founded,
managed software ...
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Responsibilities at Alexa
Niall O'Driscoll is Vice President
of Engineering at Alexa Internet. In this position, O'Driscoll manages
a team of engineers responsible for the gathering, storing, mining and
serving of 300 Terabytes of data across Alexa's farm of Linux servers.
Educational Background
O'Driscoll
holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, a M.S. in Mechanical
Engineering from Columbia University, and an MBA from University
College Dublin.
Work History
O'Driscoll co-founded,
managed software development for, and eventually sold Rubicon
Technology, which used expert systems with hypertext interfaces to
automate the task of troubleshooting robots and other manufacturing
equipment. Rubicon Technology was a spin-off of Adept Technology, which
manufactured sophisticated industrial robots and vision systems for
automating tasks. Before joining Alexa Internet in 1996 as Manager of
Client Engineering, he was a software development manager at Wonderware
Technology for two years.
