Emanuel Taropa

Emanuel Taropa is a seasoned technology professional with extensive experience at Google since October 2006, currently serving as a Google Fellow. Taropa's expertise spans distributed systems, collaborative filtering, ranking, and optimization within the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Notable achievements include the development of a Google-wide machine learning inference service and the first Cloud AI API, Cloud Vision. Prior roles include Distinguished Software Engineer and Principal Software Engineer, where Taropa applied neural networks to search system optimization and led initiatives to enhance GCP's machine learning capabilities. Taropa also gained experience at Snowflake as a Fellow focused on compliance and completed an engineering internship at Google in early 2006, improving data transfer efficiency. Educational qualifications include an MS in Computer Science from Yonsei University and a Bachelor's degree from the University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest.