Over 27 years, he became arguably the most recognizable engineer in the company’s history, eventually rising to Chief Scientist for Google Research and Google DeepMind. Later, Dean co-founded Google Brain and eventually became the public face of Google’s AI research, overseeing the merger of Brain and DeepMind and co-leading the Gemini project. Before Google, he worked at DEC’s Systems Research Center, the same lab where he first crossed paths with Dean. Alongside Dean, he co-designed the Google File System and MapReduce, then went on to build Bigtable and later Spanner, Google’s globally distributed database. Oriol VinyalsOriol Vinyals brings the deep learning and AI research side of the founding team.