Ambitious engineer at centre of colossal fight between Google and Uber

Levandowski started at Google in 2007, working on its Street View unit

In 2013, Anthony was the star of Google’s self-driving car project. The tall, swaggering engineer was featured in a long New Yorker story about the search engine willing the impossible technology into reality.

Less than four years later, he is Google’s enemy number one. 

Waymo’s lawsuit hinges on a series of alleged moves from Levandowski in the days leading up to his departure from Alphabet in January 2016. His web searches, downloads and access to an external drive left behind digital footprints. When exposed, they were closely scrutinised by his former employer — which is now citing them as central to its