The person responsible for the recent successes of Android, in addition to the key products of this ecosystem, has publicly announced that he is leaving his position: David Burke leaves his post as vice president of engineering at Google. Of course, David will remain within Alphabet.
Among all of Alphabet’s products, the Google search engine and the Android operating system are two of the keys to the company’s revenue. For advertising, for data, are the destination of its Gemini Artificial Intelligence… A success for the parent company. That’s why it’s strange that David Burke, the engineer in charge of all of Android’s recent successes, is suddenly leaving his position.
In charge of Android and its devices for 14 years
David Burke is a regular at Google I/O and product presentations. Irish engineer enrolled at University College Dublin, David joined Google as Director of Engineering in October 2007.. And in 2014, he became vice president of Android engineering.
Under the leadership of David Burke, his team developed products such as Android Studio, Android TV, the different versions of the Android system, he played a key role in the development of the Google Nexus and the new Google Pixel, even the Google Chromecast. There is no doubt that David This has been key to what Android and its ecosystem are today. And that will surely leave a void that Google will struggle to fill.
As David Burke himself announced in . without specifying the reasons for the change.
In the words of David Burke addressing the workers in his charge:
“It is important to me to leave you in good hands with a well-thought-out succession plan. We’ll have additional details on this change soon, so stay tuned.“.
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