Dan Peterson is a Product Manager at Google with a focus on developer
platforms and a passion for open source projects. Most recently, Dan worked
on Google Wave to grow the developer community and promote the federation
protocol. Prior to that, Dan helped establish the OpenSocial specification,
Apache Shindig, and co-founded the OpenSocial Foundation. Previously, Dan
guided the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) team as it became an open source project
and worked on Google's infrastructure team on web search and data center
management. Dan earned a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as minors in Technology & Management
and philosophy.