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Cool! Were you involved in GPS/localization R&D back then?

Yes, I was working for a company making standalone car navigation devices (remember those?), amongst other GPS-related things - I also worked on a lot of OEM GPS receivers. There was even a guy (not me!) who had written the firmware for a GPS receiver basically from scratch, so I got a look at everything from the very low level up to the navigation UI.

At this point the iPhone hadn’t come out yet, but building data was just starting to show up the maps we used for navigation.

Very cool. What are you up to these days?

My manager worked at Qualcomm back in the day and played a huge role in creating the first GNSS smartphone chipsets.

Likewise, I've learned a lot from him and other veterans in my org.

Cloud infrastructure - so basically I have gone right from one end of the scale spectrum (tiny GPS receivers) to the very opposite extreme :D

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