Duo creator, Stadia engineer Justin Uberti leaves Google for Clubhouse
At the end of 2019, Google Duo and WebRTC creator Justin Uberti became a high-ranking engineer for Stadia. The Google Distinguished Engineer announced today that he was joining Clubhouse, the audio social media app.
Justin Uberti (right in the above image) was “Chief Architect” at AOL (1997-2006) before joining Google. For 13 years, he worked on communication products:
Google Duo: Incubated Duo as a next-gen effort to build a simple, secure, high-quality video calling app. Designed the client and server architecture, built the organization, and led the team to ship v1. Established a culture of service quality and continuous improvement; Duo became Google’s highest-rated mobile app, and was judged the highest-quality video chat app in multiple industry studies.
WebRTC: Founded the WebRTC team as an effort to build an open-source, open-standards communications platform. Led the team, authored many of the core IETF/W3C specs, built cross-industry support, and delivered WebRTC 1.0. Worked full-stack; directly owned the networking and encryption layers in libwebrtc, as well as the WebRTC reference app (AppRTC). WebRTC is now part of every modern browser and OS and powers today’s leading video chat and cloud gaming services.
