FORA.tv Speaker - Ben Gomes

Ben Gomes is a Distinguished Engineer at Google where he is a lead for the company's engineering efforts on search features. Gomes has been with Google for more than ten years and has worked in the development of nearly all aspects of the Google search service ranging from crawling and indexing to ranking and new feature design.

Prior to Google, Gomes earned his PhD in computer science from UC Berkeley. He was born in Dar-es-salaam, Tanzania.