Ikai Lan works on the App Engine team at Google, Inc. Prior to Google, he worked as a software engineer building social applications at LinkedIn and a systems integration consultant delivering VoIP applications at Citrix Systems. Ikai is an avid technologist, consuming volumes of material about new programming languages, framework or service. In his free time, he enjoys the California outdoors, winning Chinese language karaoke contests and playing flag football. He resides in San Francisco, CA, where he watches in anguish as his favorite professional sports teams implode season after season.