Sebastian Schaffert

Sebastian Schaffert is leading the Information Retrieval SRE team as Engineering Director, responsible for managing the indexing pipelines and search indexes powering all major Google products, including Search, Geo, Youtube and the Knowledge Graph. He and his team are facing unique challenges every day, working on one of the planet's largest information systems. Previously, Sebastian was leading the Meet and Calendar SRE teams and worked on scaling Meet 100x.

He also has a background in research on Semantic Web, Databases and Reasoning, and is one of the main contributors to Apache Marmotta. He previously worked as Head of Knowledge and Media Technologies at Salzburg Research and as CTO of Redlink GmbH in Salzburg, Austria. Sebastian received a PhD from the University of Munich, Germany in 2004 in the area of Programming and Modelling Languages.