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I'm pretty surprised to not see Jeff Dean mentioned so far.

Co-Inventor with Sanjay Ghemawat on:

- MapReduce - Spanner - BigTable - Tensorflow

Jeff Dean Facts: https://www.quora.com/What-are-all-the-Jeff-Dean-facts

Sanjay Ghemawat is as big as Jeff Dean. It is just that he is more of an introvert and takes a backseat to Jeff in the public discourse.

Here is a great article on their partnership: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship...

Quote: But, for those who know them both, Sanjay is an equal talent. “Jeff is great at coming up with wild new ideas and prototyping things,” Wilson Hsieh, their longtime colleague, said. “Sanjay was the one who built things to last.”

Yea it was a toss-up between the two, but there's been so little out there about Sanjay that he's hard to know enough about to emulate unless you work with him directly I assume.

Jeff on the other hand, because he's slightly more extroverted as you point out, does videos and press which makes it easier to follow him.

Searched the comments for this. I read Jeff Dean's undergrad thesis and it's super inspiring to see how skilled he was way, way before Google

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