Mike Belshe

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Mike Belshe (born 1971) is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur. He's a co-founder and CEO of BitGo, Inc. [1] and a cofounder of Lookout Software in 2004. [2] He is the co-inventor of the SPDY protocol and one of the principal authors of the HTTP/2.0 specification.

Career

Belshe received his bachelor's degree in computer science from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

Belshe started his career at Hewlett-Packard, followed by Silicon Valley startup Netscape Communications Corp., where he worked on the Netscape Enterprise Server. [3] After Netscape he joined Good Technology before co-founding Lookout Software with Eric Hahn. [4] Joining in 2006, he was one the early hires on the Google Chrome team, [5] and was part of the Google Chrome Comic. [6] As part of the Chrome team he worked on protocol research, [7] and later co-authored the SPDY protocol. [8] He submitted SPDY to the IETF in 2011, and was an author of HTTP/2. [7] As part of the IETF standardization effort, Belshe argued for encryption by default within the protocol. [9] [10]

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References

  1. ↑ "Mike Belshe, Bitgo Inc: Profile and Biography". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
  2. ↑ Evers, Joris. 2004-7-16. “Microsoft Scoops Up Search Company”. PCWorld.
  3. ↑ O’Reilly Velocity Conference. 2011-6-16. “Mike Belshe Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine ”. O’Reilly Velocity Conference Archived 2015-09-08 at the Wayback Machine .
  4. ↑ Belshe, Mike. 2015-8-4. "About [ permanent dead link ]". Mike's Lookout.
  5. ↑ Chan, Min Li. 2009-12-3. “Technically speaking, what makes Google Chrome fast?”. Chromium Blog.
  6. ↑ Google, Inc.; McCloud, Scott. 2008-9-1. "Google Chrome Comic". Google, Inc.
  7. 1 2 Belshe, M.; Peon, R.; Thomson, M.; Melnikov, A.. 2015-5. “Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 2 (HTTP/2)”. Internet Engineering Task Force.
  8. ↑ O’Reilly Velocity Conference. 2011-6-16. “Mike Belshe Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine ”. O’Reilly Velocity Conference Archived 2015-09-08 at the Wayback Machine .
  9. ↑ "Next version of the web will have resistance to surveillance at its core | Naked Security". 24 August 2013. Retrieved 2015-12-18.
  10. ↑ "SPDY and What to Consider for HTTP/2.0". 2013-02-17.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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