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Sanjay Ghemawat

Sanjay Ghemawat portrait

Co-founder at Discovery Loop

Ghemawat helped design the systems that let Google operate at global scale, including MapReduce, the Google File System, Bigtable and Spanner. After a long tenure as one of Google's most influential engineers, he left in 2026 to co-found Discovery Loop.

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Background

Current role
Co-founder 2026-present
Previously
Until 2026Senior Fellow,
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Last editorial review: August 8, 2026

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