Abhishek Verma

About Abhishek Verma

Staff Software Engineer & Technical Leader with 10+ years experience architecting and scaling 100+ Petabyte distributed systems (IDX) and infrastructure. Proven track record of driving company-wide consolidation and generating millions in cost savings through technical strategy and cross-functional leadership. Author of foundational research paper on Borg cluster scheduling in 2015, which received the prestigious EuroSys Test of Time Award in 2025, proving long-term impact on the industry. Looking for Staff+ roles where I can innovate and solve impactful problems to create value for users and the company

Experience

1. Staff Software Engineer

   Google

   Feb 2026 — Present · Sunnyvale, CA, US

   Building the data platform for Google Cloud Applied AI

Education

• National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli

  Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science and Engineering

  2004 — 2008

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Master of Science (MS), Computer Science

  2008 — 2010

• Residential Junior College, Ahmednagar

  Science (Physics, Chemistry, Math and Biology)

  2002 — 2004

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science

  2008 — 2012

Skills

• Python
• Latex
• Artificial Intelligence
• High Performance Computing
• Image Processing
• Data Mining
• Perl
• R
• Computer Architecture
• Object Oriented Design
• Information Retrieval
• Pattern Recognition
• Computer Science
• Software Design
• Eclipse
• C++
• Java
• Hadoop
• Data Structures
• Shell Scripting
• Parallel Computing
• Mapreduce
• Machine Learning
• Open Source
• Big Data
• Simulations
• Scalability
• Software Engineering
• C
• Programming
• Optimization
• Algorithms
• Git
• Distributed Systems
• Computer Vision
• Matlab
• Linux