Featured Speakers

David Munday

David Munday
Software Engineering Manager, Google Platforms

David Munday joined Google in April 2018. David leads Google's Accelerator Software teams developing software running on chips powering global-scale services using Machine Learning (TPU). Recently David's group has added responsibility for next-generation server development and deployment at Google. Prior to working at Google, David was Director of FPGA Acceleration at Intel.

Roy Bannon

Maire Mahony
Hardware Engineer, Google Platforms

Maire is a long time Googler, having joined the company in 2006. In her current role as a storage lead in platforms, Maire is responsible for storage hardware strategy. Prior to that, Maire managed a team of talented leads who were responsible for a wide variety of systems - including GPU, TPU platforms, HDD and SSD hardware, and more.

Roy Bannon

Radha Ramachandran
Software Engineer, Google Platforms

Radha Ramachandran joined Google in January 2007. She is the current Engineering lead for HDD storage. She has led multiple projects in the HDD area including health, qualification and security. The team she leads is responsible for developing and enabling deployment of cheaper HDD bytes to Google datacenters.

Ravi Kavuri

Ravi Kavuri
Director of Engineering, Google Platforms

Ravi Kavuri is the Director of engineering at Google, leading the team responsible for platforms system software in the area of servers, storage and accelerators. Prior to joining Google, Ravi was VP, Chief Architect at NetApp working on scalable networked storage systems, a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems working on scalable storage systems and long term archival storage.

Roy Bannon

Roy Bannon
Senior Staff Hardware Engineer, Google Platforms

Roy Bannon leads the board and system HW design team within the Platforms at Google. During his over 14 years at Google, Roy has been the technical lead for the development of several Networking systems. His current team is responsible for developing the servers, storage, networking and accelerator systems deployed in the Google datacenters. Prior to Google, Roy worked at several Networking startups. He started his career at Acuson, which developed medical ultrasound systems.