Greg Price

gnprice@gmail.com
+1 617-429-3989
San Francisco, CA

Since February 2014 I write software at Dropbox. I spent the first year-and-a-bit in infrastructure, running the world's largest network filesystem. In May 2015 I helped create our engineering-effectiveness team, where we've built and are building the tools, code architecture, and language features for Dropbox's Python codebase to scale to the hundreds of engineers and enormous number of lines of code that it's now reaching.

Before that I worked at several startups, including Quora and Ksplice, an MIT spinoff eventually acquired by Oracle.

From 2007 to 2009 I was a grad student in theoretical computer science at MIT, working with Jon Kelner and Erik Demaine. I received my master's degree at MIT in 2008, and my bachelor's in mathematics at Harvard in 2007.

Selected papers from my research days:

• Higher eigenvalues of graphs. With Jonathan Kelner, James R. Lee, and Shang-Hua Teng. FOCS 2009.
• Security impact ratings considered harmful. With Jeff Arnold, Tim Abbott, Waseem Daher, Nelson Elhage, Geoffrey Thomas, and Anders Kaseorg. HotOS 2009.
• A pseudopolynomial algorithm for Alexandrov's Theorem. With Daniel Kane and Erik Demaine. WADS 2009.

Some non-academic talks delivered:

• More recent talks at Speaker Deck.
• Haskell: Compiler as Theorem-Prover (slides), a SIPB cluedump, 2007-11-19
• Hacking in Haskell (slides 1, slides 2), a two-session IAP class for SIPB, 2008-01
• Invirt (slides), with Evan Broder, a SIPB cluedump (about the software mentioned below), 2008-12-09

Other activities:

• In 2008-2009 I was chairman of the Student Information Processing Board, MIT's student computing group, and recruited a record number of first- and second-year students. We put a lot of creativity into building computer systems for the MIT community, and it was a good place to learn about computer systems too.
• I led SIPB's XVM Project until 2009, which offers virtual machines to the MIT community. We've developed our own management software, Invirt.
• I organized and run MIT Free Culture, a response to the increasingly invasive scope and effectively unending duration of copyright restrictions. We developed YouTomb.
• Once I wrote an article for The Tech, MIT's student newspaper. The Wall Street Journal picked it up as an "A-hed" story on its front page.