Deborah Wallach
Google

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Deborah Wallach is currently a Staff Engineer at Google, where she is part of the Google App Inventor for Android team, a project that allows people of all ages with no programming experience to create applications for Android phones.

Deborah joined Google in 2002, and was one of the original engineers on the Bigtable project, a distributed storage system for managing structured data that was designed to scale to a very large size: petabytes of data across thousands of commodity servers. Many projects at Google store data in Bigtable, including web indexing, Google Earth, and Google Finance.

Prior to Google, she was part of the Western Research Laboratory (WRL) of Digital Equipment Corporation, which is now part of Hewlett-Packard Labs. As a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at WRL, she was a key system software builder for the Itsy pocket computer, concentrating mainly on the operating system and reducing energy consumption.

She received an S.B., an S.M., and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her interests include rock climbing and eating adventurous food.