Niniane is an Engineering Manager at Google, where she leads the Lively engineering team.  Prior to getting Lively chartered, Niniane led the Gmail ads team, and was one of the original engineers on Google Desktop.  Before joining Google in 2003, Niniane worked at Microsoft Games on Flight Simulator, developing a system for rendering clouds which appeared in SIGGRAPH, GDC, and other publications.  Niniane holds a B.S. in computer science from Caltech, having graduated at age 18, and a M.S. in computer science from the University of Washington.