ESC Leadership
This person oversees data management and analytics, enterprise data governance, and the development of systems process tools.
Who is Drake Kakkar?
Anu is the Head of this team, which focuses on the critical areas of Manufacturing, Operations, and Delivery within ESC.
What is DCE?
This individual was formally announced as one of the inaugural new hires for the ESC-Interoperability team.
Who was AJ Shaw?
Rhino (Air Handling Units), Plate Heat Exchangers, and Chillers all fall under the Mechanical subcategory for Tier 2 products, helping with this essential data center function.
What is cooling?
Before becoming a play on the mathematical term "googol," Google was originally known by this back-scratching name.
What was Backrub?
This individual leads a team that focuses on streamlining NPI cut-ins and maximizing OFE interchangeability for next-gen ML/GPU Data Centers.
Who is Hao Cheng?
Anu dedicated nearly 20 years to this company, which famously launched the "brick phone," the DynaTAC 8000X, in 1984 as the world's first commercial handheld cellular phone.
What is Motorola?
This Googler is one of our first Mexico City ESC-er
Who is Eddie Atondo?
Starting in GDC in 2020 and becoming part of GCD, the ESC team saw its size grow by this multiple between 2020 and 2023.
What is 4X?
Started in 2007 with 650 bikes, this Mountain View-based program, designed by Googlers, now totals over 1,000 bikes.
What is the gBike program?
Prior to joining Google, this individual spent over a decade at Microsoft, where he developed and refined supply chain planning for its cloud, improving data center hardware signal accuracy and optimizing inventory levels.
Who is Anand Chellappakone?
Anu is a native to this California city that is home to a famous Rose Garden, built in the 1930s, offering stunning views of the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco Bay.
What is Berkeley?
After serving as the contracts lead for ESC for three and a half years, this individual now officially joins the team as an FTE, taking on the FTE role for all ESC contracts.
Who is Ronie Tauro?
This key decision point, marked by a star on the chart, represents a quarterly forecast that comes from the "Unconstrained Building Forecast" and "UFO-SP.
What is BDP (Building Demand Plan)?
In March 2018, Google demonstrated its commitment to New York City by purchasing this famous Manhattan market for $2.4 billion.
What is Chelsea Market?
This Head, a proud Indiana University alum and self-proclaimed "big foodie," previously served as a Chief of Staff at Microsoft for Cloud Spares & Warranty Sourcing.
Who is Ashlyn Pham?
Anu helped launch this 3rd Generation Google TPU, known for its two "TensorNodes" per chip.
What is Dragonfish?
This person, an MBA from Kellogg and an Electrical Engineer, has spent 18 years in various industries including Amazon and Google Cloud, and enjoys cooking and binge-watching the Kung Fu Panda series.
Who is Anusha Yerroju?
In 2024, ESC's Equipment Spend, measured in PO Commits, reached this impressive figure.
What is $7 billion?
As of today, Google employes over 180,000 full-time employees, with this many applications received annually.
What is 2 million applications?
This ESC Director, a recipient of both the 2023 IM100 Award and the 2024 HITEC100 Award, previously held a Senior Director of Engineering role at X Corp leading that company's first AI deployment.
Who is Angie Garza?
Anu attended this Midwestern university, known for its engineering prowess, counts two of YouTube's three co-founders, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, among its alumni.
What is the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign?
This individual, with over 8 years in the U.S. Army as a Logistics Officer and Special Forces Candidate, now shares culinary tips and recipes on his website, The Butter Bar.
Who is John Iredale?
This dedicated forum for ESC and DCDE ML Leads meets three times a week to quickly address capacity shortfalls and tackle challenges related to funding, ML acceleration, and densification.
What is the Capacity Situation Room?
This annual Nevada festival was the subject of the very first Google Doodle, created in 1998.
What is Burning Man?