He was a product manager for its Android team. Every year at Google's biggest conference, Google I/O, Barra would show off Android's latest new features for the whole world. Then, in August of this year, Barra quit Google to work for a Chinese company. In December, he gave a talk in Paris about how utterly blown away he's been by that place.

Barra used to be a top executive in Google's Android division.

In August he quit to go work for the "Steve Jobs of China," Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun.