Niall O'Driscoll

Who is Niall O'Driscoll?

Responsibilities at AlexaNiall O'Driscoll is Vice President

of Engineering at Alexa Internet. In this position, O'Driscoll manages

a team of engineers responsible for the gathering, storing, mining and

serving of 300 Terabytes of data across Alexa's farm of Linux servers.Educational BackgroundO'Driscoll

holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, a M.S. in Mechanical

Engineering from Columbia University, and an MBA from University

College Dublin.Work HistoryO'Driscoll co-founded,

managed software development for, and eventually sold Rubicon

Technology, which used expert systems with hypertext interfaces to

automate the task of troubleshooting robots and other manufacturing

equipment. Rubicon Technology was a spin-off of Adept Technology, which

manufactured sophisticated industrial robots and vision systems for

automating tasks. Before joining Alexa Internet in 1996 as Manager of

Client Engineering, he was a software development manager at Wonderware

Technology for two years.