Robert Griesemer

Robert Griesemer (born June 9, 1964) is a Swiss computer scientist. He is best known for his work on the Go programming language. Go is a statically typed, compiled programming language. Prior to Go, He worked on Google's V8 JavaScript engine, the Sawzall language, the Java HotSpot virtual machine, and the Strongtalk system.
Background.
Griesemer studied at the ETH Zurich, where he did his doctorate with Hanspeter Mössenböck and Niklaus Wirth on the subject of a programming language for vector computers. He works at Google.