Urs Hölzle
Urs Hölzle | |
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Urs Hölzle (2014) | |
| Born | 1964 (age 60–61) Basel, Switzerland |
| Alma mater | ETH Zurich Stanford University |
| Known for | JIT compilers, data centers, cloud computing, Google Cloud Platform |
| Awards | AAAS Fellow, ACM Fellow, Fulbright Scholar, NAE Member |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Thesis | Adaptive optimization for Self: Reconciling High Performance with Exploratory Programming (1994) |
| Doctoral advisor | David Ungar John L. Hennessy |
Urs Hölzle (German pronunciation: [ˈʊrs ˈhœltslɛ]; born 1964) is a Swiss-American software engineer and technology executive. As Google's eighth employee and its first VP of Engineering, he has shaped much of Google's development processes and infrastructure, as well as its engineering culture. His most notable contributions include leading the development of fundamental cloud infrastructure such as energy-efficient data centers, distributed compute and storage systems, and software-defined networking. Until July 2023, he was the Senior Vice President of Technical Infrastructure and Google Fellow at Google. In July 2023, he transitioned to being a Google Fellow only.