Gautham is a VP and Google Fellow, currently focused on AI Product Expansion and integrating Gemini into Google products. Before rejoining Google, Gautham was a Managing Director of Core Engineering at Citadel, one of the world’s most successful hedge funds, and a founding team member at Neeva, a pioneering ad-free, privacy-focused search engine. His distinguished career also includes an initial impactful tenure of over 15 years at Google, where he drove foundational advancements in distributed systems, low-latency infrastructure, and core search.