Pokémon GO with Edward Wu, Director of Software Engineering at Niantic
Google Cloud Platform Podcast18 Jan 2017

Pokémon GO with Edward Wu, Director of Software Engineering at Niantic

We're back! And we're bringing a seriously cool interview about Pokémon GO with Edward Wu, Director of Software Engineering at Niantic.

In this interview your co-hosts Francesc and Mark chat with Ed about the whole history of Pokémon GO, from the inception of Niantic to the amazing success and the scaling challenges they faced.

About Ed

Ed Wu is a Director, Software Engineering at Niantic who leads the engineering team of Pokémon GO as well as the Niantic Seattle site. Before helping to lead Niantic from its successful spin-out from Google, Dr. Wu was a Staff Software Engineer at Google where he developed machine learning models in ads quality.

He received his PhD from Stanford in Physics in 2009 applying Bayesian parameter estimation models to cosmological data he collected from three visits to Antarctica and the South Pole.

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