Work:   last name @ google.com Personal:   first name @ melnix.com Google 747 6th Street South Kirkland, WA 98033, USA

Sergey Melnik is a software engineer at Google. Before that he was a researcher in the Database Group at Microsoft Research (2003-2008), a visiting researcher in the Stanford Database Group (1999-2002), and served as an invited expert at the World-Wide Web Consortium. He got an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Leipzig, Germany. He received best paper awards at SIGMOD, ICDE and OSDI conferences, 10-year Most Influential Paper Award from ICDE, VLDB Test of Time Award, and a best dissertation award from the German C.S. Society.

At Google, Sergey is working on Spanner, a planet-scale transactional system that powers most of Google services and is available as a Cloud product. Before that, he led the development of the data analysis system called Dremel that was made publicly available as BigQuery, is a fully-managed, serverless data warehouse that enables scalable analytics over petabytes of data.

Previously, at Microsoft he was doing research on model management, object-to-relational mapping for the ADO.NET Entity Framework, XML-to-relational mapping, and schema matching, much of it with Phil Bernstein and the Data Programmability team in SQL Server.

Selected publications

• Dremel: A Decade of Interactive SQL Analysis at Web Scale. Invited paper for the VLDB'20 Test of Time Award (recorded talk). The award for given for the VLDB'10 paper:
  
  Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets, with A. Gubarev, J. J. Long, G. Romer, S. Shivakumar, M. Tolton, and T. Vassilakis. VLDB'10 (slides). Invited article in CACM Research Highlights, prefaced with Technical Perspective by Mike Franklin.
  
  
• The Seattle Report on Database Research, with D. Abadi, A. Ailamaki, D. Andersen, P. Bailis, M. Balazinska, P. A. Bernstein, P. A. Boncz, S. Chaudhuri, A. Cheung, A. Doan, L. Dong, M. J. Franklin, J. Freire, A. Y. Halevy, J. M. Hellerstein, S. Idreos, D. Kossmann, T. Kraska, S. Krishnamurthy, V. Markl, T. Milo, C. Mohan, T. Neumann, B. C. Ooi, F. Ozcan, J. Patel, A. Pavlo, R. A. Popa, R. Ramakrishnan, C. Ré, M. Stonebraker, D. Suciu. SIGMOD Rec. 48(4): 44-53 (2019)
  
  
• Spanner: Becoming a SQL System, with D. Bacon, N. Bales, N. Bruno, B. Cooper, A. Dickinson, A. Fikes, C. Fraser, A. Gubarev, M. Joshi, E. Kogan, A. Lloyd, C. Taylor, R. Rao, D. Shue, M. van der Holst, and D. Woodford. SIGMOD'17
  
  
• Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database, with J. Corbett, J. Dean, M. Epstein, C. Frost, J. Furman, S. Ghemawat, A. Gubarev, C. Heiser, P. Hochschild, W. Hsieh, S. Kanthak, E. Kogan, H. Li, A. Lloyd, D. Mwaura, D. Nagle, S. Quinlan, R. Rao, L. Rolig, Y. Saito, M. Szymaniak, C. Taylor, R. Wang, and D. Woodford. OSDI'12 (Best Paper)

• Compiling Mappings to Bridge Applications and Databases, with A. Adya and P.A. Bernstein. SIGMOD'07 (Best Paper),  journal version (TODS'08)
  

Selected talks

• Dremel: A Decade of Interactive SQL Analysis at Web Scale. VLDB'20 Test of Time Award talk
  
  
• Spanner's SQL Evolution, Data@Scale 2017, Seattle (pdf)
  
  
• A Decade after Flooding, 10-year Most Influential Paper Award Talk at ICDE'13 for the Similarity Flooding paper published at ICDE'02
  
  
• The Frontiers of Data Programmability,  Keynote at the German database conference (BTW'09), Münster

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