Steve Souders
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Steve works at Google on web performance and open source initiatives. His book High Performance Web Sites explains his best practices for performance along with the research and real-world results behind them. Steve is the creator of YSlow, the performance analysis extension to Firebug. He is also co-chair of Velocity 2008, the first web performance conference sponsored by O'Reilly. He frequently speaks at such conferences as OSCON, Rich Web Experience, Web 2.0 Expo, and The Ajax Experience.
Steve previously worked at Yahoo! as the Chief Performance Yahoo!, where he blogged about web performance on Yahoo! Developer Network. He was named a Yahoo! Superstar. Steve worked on many of the platforms and products within the company, including running the development team for My Yahoo!. Prior to Yahoo! Steve worked at several small to mid-sized startups including two companies he co-founded, Helix Systems and CoolSync. He also worked at General Magic, WhoWhere?, and Lycos.
[edit] Links
- http://www.stevesouders.com/ - Home page
- Steve's High Performance Web Sites blog
- Twitter: @souders
Presentations
- In Search of Speed at SpeedGeeks L.A. (October, 2009) on 26 October 2009
- Even Faster Web Sites (at Web2.0 conference) at Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2008 on 2 April 2009
- Even Faster Web Sites at SXSW 2009 on 14 March 2009
- Life is Too Short, Write Fast Code (part 2) at Google Tech Talks on 5 March 2009
- High Performance Web Sites and YSlow at Google Tech Talks on 13 November 2007
- High Performance Widgets at Widget Summit 2007 on 16 October 2007
- High Performance Webpages at Web 2.0 Expo 2007 on 15 April 2007
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