Jeff Dean is leav­ing Google. I have long looked up to Jeff Dean as a bea­con of en­gi­neer­ing ex­cel­lence. In cel­e­bra­tion, I sug­gest you read through this com­piled list of Chuck Norris-style Jeff Dean facts. Jeff Dean in­vented BigTable be­cause his re­sume was too big to fit any­where else. Jeff Dean does­n’t use ECC mem­ory.