Sanjay Ghemawat

Who is this?

Sanjay Ghemawat (born 1966 in West Lafayette, Indiana) is an American computer scientist and software engineer. He is currently a Senior Fellow at Google in the Systems Infrastructure Group. Ghemawat's work at Google, much of it in close collaboration with Jeff Dean, has included big data processing model MapReduce, the Google File System, and databases Bigtable and Spanner. Wired has described him as one of the "most important software engineers of the internet age". Ghemawat was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering in 2009 for contributions to the science and engineering of large-scale distributed computer systems.

Career

1. 1966
   Born
2. 2012
   Won ACM Prize in Computing
3. 2020
   Won ACM Fellow
4. 2021
   Member of Association for Computing Machinery
5. Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
6. Won Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Trivia

• •Place of birth: West Lafayette
• •Citizenship: United States
• •Known as: computer scientist