American computer scientist and former Google VP of engineering, known for leading Google's search infrastructure work and later co-founding Apprente (acquired by McDonald's) and Argo AI work.
Led major search infrastructure projects at Google including the Caffeine web indexing system — a ground-up rebuild of Google's search index that dramatically improved freshness and coverage — representing one of the most consequential infrastructure projects in search history.
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