In November, 2021, McClendon joined Niantic as a senior vice president of augmented reality, research and mapping Politics He left Google to join Uber in June 2015 to work on mapping and machine learning. Brian was also instrumental in the creation of Google Santa Tracker Uber Under McClendon's tenure, Google Geo products included Google Maps, Google Maps API, Street View, Google Local Search, Panoramio, Sketchup, Waze, Google Earth, and Google Earth Engine.
Keyhole's main application suite, Earth Viewer, and Keyhole Markup Language (KML), formed the basis for Google Earth.
He was later promoted to vice president, overseeing the Geo team. When Google acquired Keyhole in 2004, McClendon became a director of engineering for Google Geo, a team focussed on geospatial data visualization applications. He served as a board member and later joined the company as vice president of engineering. In 2001, he was one of the original investors in Keyhole, Inc., a software development company specializing in geospatial data visualization applications. McClendon spent eight years with Silicon Graphics developing high-end workstation 3D graphics including GT, GTX, RealityEngine, and InfiniteReality, and then worked as an engineering director with Network. He graduated from Lawrence High School in 1982 and from the University of Kansas in 1986 with a degree in electrical engineering. His childhood home, Meadowbrook Apartments in Lawrence, is the default center point of Google Earth. McClendon was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2015 for strategic, technical, and managerial leadership resulting in widespread accurate and useful geographic information. Keyhole itself was spun off from another company called Intrinsic Graphics, of which McClendon was also a co-founder. He was a co-founder and angel investor in Keyhole, Inc., a geospatial data visualization company that was purchased by Google in 2004 to produce Google Earth. Brian A McClendon (born 1964) is an American software executive, engineer, and inventor.
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