Chris Wetherell is an American software developer and musician best known as the founder of Google Reader and as an influential "ex-Googler" since his departure from the company.While working at Google in 2005, he was the Senior Software Engineer in developing the feed aggregator Google Reader.After leaving Google, Wetherell worked at Twitter as Consulting Project Lead on a new "Retweet" feature, co-founded Thing Labs and worked on Brizzly, before co-founding Avocado to produce an intimacy application of the same name and a social spin-off called Pears.