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John Hjelmstad

John Hjelmstad is a software engineer at Google, currently serving as tech lead on gadgets and OpenSocial efforts within the company. He helped bootstrap the Shindig project's gadgets server, and continues to contribute to it along with the specifications for gadgets and OpenSocial. His previous Google work was in Google Apps, and before this worked at Amazon.com and A9.com in seller platform and local/maps teams, respectively. He received his BS in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2002.