Van Riper

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Gender Male
Industry Internet
Occupation Chief Web Technologist
Location Mountain View, CA, United States
Introduction Michael Van Riper has a Bachelors in Computer Science from MIT. Since 1980, Van has worked as a software engineer in Silicon Valley. He was a core member of the engineering team at Adobe that built the award winning Adobe PageMill web authoring program. Since 1999, he has focused on developing web applications in Java. He is currently Chief Web Technologist at Krillion in Mountain View, California. Van is the co-founder and co-leader of the Silicon Valley GTUG (Google Technology User Group). He is also the founder and co-leader of the Silicon Valley Web JUG (Java User Group).