Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen is a Danish software engineer, technology executive, and co-founder of Where 2 Technologies which led to Google Maps. See more

From July 1999 to November 2002, Rasmussen was a senior engineer at Digital Fountain in California. Digital Fountain used forward error correction to deliver files and stream on-demand content over … See more

In early 2003, Rasmussen and his brother Lars started Where 2 Technologies, a mapping project that developed the prototype of their … See more

Rasmussen invented Google Wave in 2004, while the brothers were in talks with Google about selling Where 2 Technologies to Google. The Rasmussen brothers started working on Google Wave in 2006, and in 2007 Jens moved to Sydney See more

Rasmussen designed the Google Maps pin while he was employed by Google. The pin is a simple pointer with a bubble top which tapers to a … See more

Rasmussen holds patents on thirty-five software services and applications. See more

Google Maps won two Webby Awards in 2006, one in the General Website Services category and another in the Best Practices category.
In 2010, the Pearcey Foundation named the Rasmussen brothers New South Wales ICT Entrepreneurs of … See more