Mike Belshe (born 1971) is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur. He's a co-founder and CEO of BitGo, Inc.[1] and a cofounder of Lookout Software in 2004.[2] He is the co-inventor of the SPDY protocol and one of the principal authors of the HTTP/2.0 specification.
Belshe received his bachelor's degree in computer science from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
Belshe started his career at Hewlett-Packard, followed by Silicon Valley startup Netscape Communications Corp., where he worked on the Netscape Enterprise Server.[3] After Netscape he joined Good Technology before co-founding Lookout Software with Eric Hahn.[4] Joining in 2006, he was one the early hires on the Google Chrome team,[5] and was part of the Google Chrome Comic.[6] As part of the Chrome team he worked on protocol research,[7] and later co-authored the SPDY protocol.[8] He submitted SPDY to the IETF in 2011, and was an author of HTTP/2.[7] As part of the IETF standardization effort, Belshe argued for encryption by default within the protocol.[9] [10]