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Rob Pike

Programmer; Co-Creator of Go

Rob Pike is a Canadian programmer who was a member of the Unix team at Bell Labs, where he worked on Plan 9, Inferno and the Blit terminal. He joined Google in 2002 and co-created the Go programming language. He co-created UTF-8 with Ken Thompson and co-authored The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming with Brian Kernighan.

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Expertise

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Key facts

Works at
Google
Previously
Bell Labs, Member of the Unix team
Built
ivy, author
Sawzall
Inferno
UTF-8, co-creator
Plan 9, contributor
Go, co-creator

Career

  1. Googlecurrent2002 – present
    Verified1 source
  2. Bell Labspast
    Member of the Unix team
    Verified1 source

Timeline 8

Dated events, newest first. Open the sources under any item.

How we verify
Career2Built6
20021 event
  1. 2002Career
    Rob Pike works at Google
    Verified1 source· Web· archived
Undated7 events
  1. undatedBuilt
    Rob Pike built ivy
    author
    Verified1 source· Web· archived
    +4 more projects on the full timeline
  2. undatedBuilt
    Rob Pike built Sawzall
    Verified1 source· Web· archived
  3. undatedCareer
    Rob Pike previously at Bell Labs
    Member of the Unix team
    Verified1 source· Web· archived

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