Oliver Heckmann

Oliver Heckmann, Engineering Director, YouTube (Europe)

Oliver Heckmann is the engineering Director of YouTube in Europe. He is leading a team of 70 software engineers and researchers. He is responsible for many partner and user facing projects – like Content ID, Annotations, Insight & Analytics, Video Ingestion and the GData API – as well as large parts of YouTube monetization – Ads Targeting and Ads Quality. Before working on YouTube, Oliver was a manager on the Gmail team. And, before joining Google in 2006, he was leading a research team at the Multimedia Communications Lab in Darmstadt / Germany. In 2004, he won an award for the best German Computer Science Dissertation – followed by multiple other awards, including a Google Founders Award. “