Joseph Smarr

Member of Technical Staff, Google

I'm CTO of Plaxo, and I was also its first employee. I'm leading our efforts to help open up the social web so we can help you stay connected to your friends and colleagues across all the social tools you use, just as we do with traditional address books. I also built a lot of Plaxo Online and wear many other hats, as you might expect at a startup. I went to Stanford and I have a BS and MS in Symbolic Systems, where my focus was Natural Language Processing. I'm married to a wonderful fellow Stanfordite named Michelle, and in my free time I like playing electric guitar (mostly rock and blues). I'm 28, I live in Half Moon Bay, I'm happily married, and I spend all my time working at Plaxo. :)