Dr. Christopher Colohan

Chris is a software engineer and manager at Google.  His work at Google includes work on websearch indexing, MapReduce, infrastructure, and automated cluster management.  In his work Chris has broken multiple Google-wide (and possibly world-wide?) computer and network performance records, including being the first to sort 1PB of data using MapReduce (with the help of _many_ others).  Before joining Google Chris received a Masters and PhD from Carnegie Mellon, and a BAppSc from University of Toronto.