Sanjay Ghemawat

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.

Education and early career Ghemawat was born in West Lafayette, Indiana and grew up in Kota, Rajasthan. He studied at Cornell University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Before joining Google, Ghemawat worked at the DEC Systems Research Center. There he began his long-time collaboration with Jeff Dean, who worked at another DEC research lab nearby. Their work at DEC included a Java compiler and a system profiling tool. In 2012, he and Dean received the ACM Prize in Computing for their work on internet infrastructure,

Selected publications