Instructors

Dan Ardelean is a Distinguished Software Engineer in Google Cloud, where he guides engineering architecture, design and deployment for all G Suite/Google Apps products (which include Gmail, Drive, Docs and Hangouts). He is setting direction across the stack, especially in storage and back-end systems for G Suite Applications.

Amer Diwan is a Distinguished Software Engineer at Google. He leads various efforts in Google Apps, including the cost and backend performance efforts. Before joining Google, Amer was a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

JJ Furman is the founder and creator of Megastore, a system that scaled to support applications as large as Drive and Gmail. He has contributed to many critical distributed systems at Google including Spanner. He is currently working on event processing systems and setting general technical direction in G Suite/Google Apps.