Sanjay Ghemawat (born 1966 in West Lafayette, Indiana)[1] is an Indian American[2] computer scientist and software engineer.
[3] He obtained a PhD from MIT in 1995, with a dissertation titled, The Modified Object Buffer: A Storage Management Technique for Object-Oriented Databases.
There he began his long-time collaboration with Jeff Dean, who worked at another DEC research lab nearby.
Dean took a position at the newly founded search-engine company Google, and was joined by Ghemawat in 1999.
The two began working on Google's core infrastructure, making improvements to cope with the search engine's rapid growth in users in the early 2000s.