Zach Vorhies
Former Google engineer and whistleblower
Zach Vorhies spent over eight years as a software engineer at Google and YouTube. He wrote Google Leaks, an account of his time inside the company.
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About Zach Vorhies
Zach Vorhies worked at Google and YouTube for eight and a half years and rose to senior engineer. His projects included bringing Google Earth into driving directions and building the YouTube interface on the PS4 game console. He is the author of Google Leaks, a 2021 book written with Kent Heckenlively. In it he presents himself as a Google whistleblower and recounts what he saw from the inside after the 2016 US election.