[forgot-my-pw]

He worked on TensorFlow. So even if the doesn't do ML research himself, at least he works on the tooling.

[modeless]

TensorFlow was honestly not that good. It had a lot of effort put into it, so it worked, but there are reasons people moved away from it.

I think Jeff Dean is a great engineer, but I wouldn't hold up TensorFlow as a great example.

[theGnuMe]

I always thought he pair programmed so it's been Jeff + Sanjay.

[VirusNewbie]

Why wasn’t tensorflow good?

[Dr_Birdbrain]

I started my ML journey in TensorFlow, and now I am a happy PyTorch user, for many years.

TensorFlow, yuck

[hungryforcodes]

But who uses TensorFlow -- really -- these days.

[hyperhopper]

What else are people using then?

[acmj]

PyTorch everywhere

[modeless]

Or JAX

[tho2i34o2343]

Google does almost exclusively; it's tied in to TFX.

[tempusalaria]

Of course he is someone any technology organisation would want to have as a resource. But probably not as chief scientist or ceo of an ML company based on the available evidence