Lars Bak (computer programmer)

Lars Bak is a Danish computer programmer. He is known as a JavaScript expert and for his work on virtual machines. He is currently employed by Google, having contributed to the Chrome browser by developing the V8 JavaScript engine. After years abroad, Lars Bak now lives near Aarhus in Denmark.

Bak studied at Aarhus University in Denmark, receiving an MS degree in computer science in 1988 after which he became active in designing and implementing object-oriented virtual machines.

After participating in the design and implementation of the BETA Mjølner System, in 1991 he joined the Self group at Sun Microsystems Laboratories in Cupertino, California. During his time there, he developed a programming environment for Self and added several enhancements to the virtual machine.

In 1994, he joined LongView Technologies LLC, where he designed and implemented high performance virtual machines for both Smalltalk and Java. After Sun Microsystems acquired LongView in 1997, Bak became engineering manager and technical lead in the HotSpot team at Sun's Java Software Division where he developed a high-performance Java virtual machine.

In 2002, after returning to Aarhus, Denmark, Bak founded OOVM, a company which developed software for mobile phones. In 2004, he sold it to a Swiss company, Esmertec.

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