Eric
Cattell

Leading engineering for Apple's iCloud communication products — bringing deep expertise in intelligence, search, anti-abuse, and cloud product design to one of the world's most-used platforms.

Led all data infrastructure powering Android and Google devices — with primary focus on mobile AI/ML pipelines and inference infrastructure at scale.

Built the user experiences for search and retail ads across Google.com, Shopping, and Image Search.

Engineering lead for the infrastructure behind all of Google's cloud business systems.

Responsible for the Google Search Appliance (used by ~50% of Fortune 500 companies) and search infrastructure across Google's product portfolio including Gmail.

Architect from first release through maturity — embedded across Wear OS and Android with dedicated hardware integration.

Helped grow Google Keep into one of the fastest-growing Android apps after launching sharing, achieving a 4.4 Play Store rating.

Managed the desktop, Android, iOS, and Chromebook photo teams as well as Google Events. Scaled to nearly one billion photos uploaded per day before departing.

Led the 30-person frontend team for Google+'s Social Graph — Friends, Following, Sharing, and Circles — from conception through a year post-launch.

One of the earliest Gmail engineers. Built MIME parsing, message routing, load balancing, character set encoding, and attachment infrastructure. Tech Lead for Gmail Routing (GMR).

First project at Google: helped re-write Orkut in C++, Java, and Bigtable at a time when Orkut had more page views than Google.com itself.

Co-founded Akonix, initially building consumer sites including jdate.com, then pivoted to enterprise IM security — building firewalls for instant messaging platforms.