Benoit Schillings is a Belgian software engineer, he is the Vice President of AI at Google Inc, previously he was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Google[x] leading the early projects at X.
Schillings' association with Be Inc. began in 1990 when, as a developer of software for the Apple Macintosh, he visited the Apple Expo in Paris and met Jean-Louis Gassée.
Schillings also developed the graphics system for BeOS (known as the App Server), as well as programming frameworks such as the Interface Kit and Application Kit that are used by software developers to write software for the operating system.
[1] Before joining Trolltech in October 2005, Schillings worked as a "Distinguished Engineer" and CTO at Openwave where, with Mike Reed, he led a team that developed Version 7 of the Openwave Phone Suite mobile phone applications.
[3] Benoit also ran the android and iOS mobile teams at Yahoo from 2013 until 2017.