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.
