Sacha Arnoud

Sacha Arnoud is the Director of Engineering at Waymo, the autonomous car development company, in Mountain View, CA. Before the company was made into its own separate division under Alphabet Inc. in December of 2016, Arnoud held the same position at Google dating back to February of 2010. For nearly seven years, he led the engineering teams there across various initiatives to organize and data mine all of Google’s geo imagery, including developing some of the largest crowd-sourcing solutions and state of the art deep-net based computer vision to contribute to Google Maps data. 

After studying engineering at Ecole Polytechnique in Paris from 1995 to 1998 and obtaining his master’s degree from Telecom ParisTech in 2000, Arnoud went on to work at Chorus Systems as an engineer for seven months in 2000 before taking a position as a system developer at Sun Microsystems. 

He worked at Sun Microsystems for about seven years, first as a developer, and later as a senior developer for the Sun Cluster product. He co-invented the technology to build a line of cheap, scalable, and reliable archival storage appliances at Sun and eventually became the chief architect there. He was the architect for and led the transformation of the StorageTek 5800 archival storage appliance called Honeycomb from its inception to a fully released product. In 2009, it was the InfoWorld “Best Fixed Content Archiving Solution” award winner.

In 2007, Arnoud took a position as a software architect and development manager at Conviva, a company that offers solutions for online video optimization and online video analytics. He invented and led the first deliveries of the company’s analytics products. In 2009, Arnoud started at Aardvark, where he worked until it was acquired by Google in February of 2010, when he was named Director of Engineering at Google.