I thought Jeff Dean was the 'Chuck Norris' of programming. He designed (with others) a lot of Google's biggest infrastructure projects as well as multiple iterations of the main search infrastructure.
Among others, the projects he's worked on include:
Spanner - a scalable, multi-version, globally distributed, and synchronously replicated database
Some of the production system design and statistical machine translation system for Google Translate.
BigTable, a large-scale semi-structured storage system.
MapReduce a system for large-scale data processing applications.
Google Brain a system for large-scale artificial neural networks
LevelDB an open source on-disk key-value store.
TensorFlow an open source machine learning software library.
See
http://www.wired.com/2012/08/google-as-xerox-parc/all/
https://www.quora.com/Who-is-Jeff-Dean
Among others, the projects he's worked on include:
Spanner - a scalable, multi-version, globally distributed, and synchronously replicated database
Some of the production system design and statistical machine translation system for Google Translate.
BigTable, a large-scale semi-structured storage system.
MapReduce a system for large-scale data processing applications.
Google Brain a system for large-scale artificial neural networks
LevelDB an open source on-disk key-value store.
TensorFlow an open source machine learning software library.
See http://www.wired.com/2012/08/google-as-xerox-parc/all/
https://www.quora.com/Who-is-Jeff-Dean