Jim Roskind | |
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Education | MIT (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.)[1][2][3] |
Occupation | Software engineer |
Employer | Amazon |
Known for | QUIC protocol |
Jim Roskind is an American software engineer best known for designing the QUIC protocol in 2012 while being an employee at Google.[4][5] Roskind co-founded Infoseek in 1994 with 7 other people, including Steve Kirsch.[6] Later that year, Roskind wrote the Python profiler which is part of the standard library.[7] From 1995 to 2003 he was chief architect at Netscape during which time he developed Netscape's Java security module.[8][9]
While at Netscape in 1996, he successfully brought a lawsuit against Morgan Stanley, arguing that the way they sold his stock caused him to get a lower price than he should have.[10] That case was appealed up to the US Supreme Court, which declined to hear the case, leaving in place a precedent where individuals can sue stock brokers for violations of state law.[11]