About
David Gourley is a co-founder of Jellyfish. He previously served as VP of Product and Engineering for Operations at Groupon, co-founded and led engineering at Ludic Labs (acquired by Groupon), co-founded Endeca Technologies (acquired by Oracle), and was a member of the founding engineering team at Inktomi. He holds several patents in Internet and search-related technologies and co-authored the O'Reilly book HTTP: The Definitive Guide.
Founder at Jellyfish
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Experience
- JellyfishCo-Foundercurrent2017 — presentGreater Boston Area
- GrouponVP Product and Engineering, Operations2012 — 2014Greater Chicago Area
- GrouponVPE2010 — 2012Greater Chicago Area
- Ludic LabsVPE2006 — 2010San Francisco Bay Area
- EndecaFounder and Chief Technology Officer1999 — 2006Greater Boston Area
- Inktomi CorporationResearch and Development1996 — 2000San Francisco Bay Area
Skills & more
Distributed Systems7Product Management18Scalability7Information Retrieval2Enterprise Search2Full Text SearchFaceted SearchWeb Caching1Endeca1Start-ups7Product Development4Big Data8
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Mobile ApplicationsE-commerceRubyHadoopMapReduceGitAmazon Web Services (AWS)MongoDBFrom David's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is David Gourley?
- David Gourley is a co-founder of Jellyfish. He previously served as VP of Product and Engineering for Operations at Groupon, co-founded and led engineering at Ludic Labs (acquired by Groupon), co-founded Endeca Technologies (acquired by Oracle), and was a member of the founding engineering team at Inktomi. He holds several patents in Internet and search-related technologies and co-authored the O'Reilly book HTTP: The Definitive Guide.
- Where does David Gourley work?
- David Gourley is Founder of Jellyfish.
- What companies did David Gourley found?
- David Gourley founded Jellyfish.
- Where did David Gourley go to school?
- David Gourley studied at University of California, Berkeley (BA, Computer Science).
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