Erlang Factory - Rick Reed, Software engineer at WhatsApp
Rick Reed is an engineer/architect at WhatsApp, an early stage technology startup
founded in the heart of Silicon Valley. WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform mobile messaging
app, and Rick's work at WhatsApp focuses on performance and scalability of the company's server
systems.
Prior to joining the WhatsApp team, Rick was a Distinguished Engineer at Yahoo! Inc. and spent 12
years working on the company's platform infrastructure. Before Yahoo!, he was Member of Technical
Staff with SGI where he worked on interactive TV services and built SGI's disk-based
broadcast VTR system. In the early 90's, at Metaphor Computer Systems, Rick developed Metaphor's
Internet services gateway for their distributed decision-support system. Rick launched his software
career at Aion Corporation developing the platform for the company's expert system development
environment.
Rick earned his Bachelor of Science Degree and Masters
Credentials in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
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