Douwe Osinga grew up in the Netherlands where after his studies in Amsterdam he became somewhat of a serial entrepreneur, founding internet related companies before, during and after the bubble, with varying amounts of success.

In the end he missed the hard core engineering and accepted an offer from Google to work for their European Engineering Center in Zurich.

Douwe works on various Google projects, including improvement of search quality and others. Some of his experiments in software can be found on his personal website at http://douweosinga.com.