Summary
Frank Siegemund is a senior engineering manager with 11+ years driving cloud infrastructure and virtualization at Google and Microsoft, currently leading GPU and accelerator VM efforts in Google Compute Engine. He combines deep distributed-systems research roots (PhD, ETH Zurich) with hands-on product delivery, having built core Azure networking services and Traffic Manager that handle hundreds of millions of requests per day. At Google he has shifted from telemetry, tracing and performance analysis to operationalizing complex GPU instance families (A100/H100, L4, V100, T4, etc.) for cloud customers. Known for shipping production-grade APIs, SDKs and tooling, he balances low-level system design with customer-facing reliability and efficiency. Based in Seattle, he brings a rare mix of academic rigor and large-scale cloud engineering leadership, with a track record of founding teams and scaling platform services.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MS in Computer Science (Diplom-Informatiker), Computer Science, MS in Computer Science (Diplom-Informatiker), Computer Science at University of Rostock/University of London/Technical University Darmstadt
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at ETH Zurich
English, German