WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform mobile messaging app, and Rick's work at WhatsApp focuses on performance and scalability of the company's server systems.Prior to joining the WhatsApp team, Rick spent 12 years at Yahoo! working on the company's platform infrastructure. Before Yahoo!, he was at SGI where he worked on interactive TV services and built SGI's disk-based broadcast VTR system. In the early 90's, at Metaphor Computer Systems, Rick developed Metaphor’s Internet services gateway for their distributed decision-support system. Rick launched his software career at Aion Corporation developing the platform for the company's expert system development environment. Rick received his BS/MSEE from Stanford. Rick Reed is Giving the Following Talks