Scott Hassan is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur who was the main programmer of the original Google Search engine, then known as BackRub. He was research assistant at Stanford University at the time, after working at Washington University's Medical Libraries Group (having been recruited out of SUNY Buffalo for the summer).

Scott Hassan is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur who was the main programmer of the original Google Search engine back then known as BackRub. Scott is now a well-known American entrepreneur, CEO of Suitable Technologies, Founder of Willo Garage Robotics company, and Founder of eGroups from Palo Alto.

The project initially involved an unofficial "third founder", Scott Hassan, the lead programmer who wrote much of the code for the original Google Search engine, but he left before Google was officially founded as a company; Hassan went on to pursue a career in robotics and founded the company Willow Garage in 2006. Craig Nevill-Manning was also invited to join Google at its formation but declined and then joined a little later on.