Luiz Andre Barroso

Luiz Andre Barroso (June 30, 1964 to September 16, 2023) was a Brazilian computer engineer who, while working at Google, pioneered the design of the modern data center. Born in Rio de Janeiro, he worked at Digital Equipment Corporation before joining Google in 2001, where he managed the design of the data center and is credited with redesigning Google's data centers and servers to be significantly more energy and cost efficient. He was a Google Fellow, led the office of Cross-Google Engineering, and worked as a vice president of engineering in the Core and Maps teams. He was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Association for Computing Machinery, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering, and received the ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award in 2020. He earned a bachelor's and master's degree in electrical engineering from the Pontificia Universidade Catolica in Rio de Janeiro and a PhD from the University of Southern California, and co-authored The Datacenter as a Computer, the first textbook to describe the architecture of warehouse-scale computing systems.