About

Archie Russell is a Senior Engineering Manager at Google, where he leads the Google App Engine team. He has over 21 years of experience in the tech industry, with a focus on backend development, data science, and recommendation systems. Prior to joining Google, Archie worked at Yahoo as a Senior Engineering Manager for their photo storage and serving efforts. In this role, he led initiatives to reduce photo storage costs by over 50% and improve photo serving performance by over 30%, while maintaining over 99.95% uptime. He also led image-related data science projects, including a large-scale product recommendation system based on image similarity, an ad quality assessment system, and a network-based duplicate image detection tool. Archie's work at Yahoo is described in detail in several articles, including "A Year Without a Byte" and "Perceptual Image Compression." Before Yahoo, Archie was the Director of Informatics at Omicia, Inc., where he led the back-end design and development of their flagship product, Opal. Opal identifies likely disease-causing mutations in human genome (DNA) data, either in families or in individuals, and incorporates diverse "big data" from public and proprietary sources and public and internally developed AI/data-mining algorithms. Archie holds a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science from the University of Washington. He is proficient in several technologies, including dotNET, Java, Spring, AI, and Big Data. With his extensive experience in backend development, data science, and recommendation systems, Archie is a valuable asset to any team.