Co-designer and implementor of the initial version of Google's advertising serving system. Co-designer and implementor of MapReduce, a system for simplifying the development of large-scale data processing applications on large clusters of machines.
He received a Ph. D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington, working under Craig Chambers on compilers and whole-program optimization techniques for object-oriented programming languages in 1996.
Jeff Dean joined Google in 1999 and is currently a senior fellow and SVP for Google AI. He oversees Google's research division and health division. His teams are working on systems for speech recognition, computer vision, language understanding, and other machine-learning tasks.
Most of the code I write is in C++, although I've written fair amounts of code in Java, Python, Perl, Self, Cecil, x86 assembly, and Pascal over the years. For writing, commenting and collaborating on internal technical documents, I use Google Docs. For technical papers, I and my coauthors usually use LaTeX.Feb 28, 2017
Google Fellows are usually the world's leading experts in their fields. Jeff and Sanjay are Google Senior Fellows—the company's first and only Level 11s.Dec 10, 2018
53Â years (July 23, 1968)Jeff Dean / Age
Sanjay Ghemawat (born 1966 in West Lafayette, Indiana) is an Indian American computer scientist and software engineer. He is currently a Senior Fellow at Google in the Systems Infrastructure Group.
As I began to cultivate more engineer friends, I came to know more about his "legend"; one such friend once exclaimed, "You had lunch with Jeff Dean?!" Dean is such a star because Googlers widely credit his code for the blazing speed of Google search.Jan 24, 2012
Programmer Jeff Dean was one of Google's earliest employees, and he is credited with helping to create some of the fundamental technologies that powered the tech giant's rise in the early 2000s. Now, he's been put in charge of Google's future, taking over as head of the company's artificial intelligence unit.Apr 3, 2018
Jon Skeet. Credentials: Google engineer and author of C# in Depth. Holds highest reputation score of all time on Stack Overflow, answering, on average, more than 425 questions per month.Sep 2, 2015
1999Jeff Dean was one of the earliest employees of the company, having joined in 1999 after receiving his Ph. D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington three years earlier.Aug 1, 2016