Erik Corry, Google

Erik has worked on the implementation of several object oriented languages, including the object-oriented BETA system from Århus.  For the last three years he has been part of the team building V8, the JavaScript implementation in Google Chrome.  Erik has worked particularly on the lightning fast regexp implementation and the ARM backend, as used in Android and ChromeOS.

 

Software Passion: My passion is speeding up every program in the world by making the languages they use faster

 

Links:

Blog: http://blog.chromium.org/ 

Twitter: http://twitter.com/erikcorry

V8: http://code.google.com/p/v8