Douwe Osinga

Douwe is a product oriented software engineer with a strong entrepreneurial spirit. He’s the Director Of Engineering at Sidewalk Labs, and he’s founded and sold several companies, most notably Triposo - a system built on a set of NLP and Machine Learning techniques. Before this he headed up the Google Wave API team that built the extension framework to allow third parties to build robots and ui-widgets for Wave. He later refactored the ui-widget API, and which evolved into the Hangouts API. He’s also the author of the Deep Learning Cookbook.