SAN JOSE, CA - Venkat Panchapakesan, YouTube’s head of engineering who enabled much of the free flowing content, lost a months-long battle to cancer earlier this month and passed away in Silicon Valley, where he was a much-loved and highly-respected engineer who had worked his way through Yahoo and Google, among other firms. The Indian-American executive was only 49,
and leaves behind his wife Sandy, two children, and a host of friends and admirers.,a Times of India report said. Venky, as he was popularly known, hailed from Coimbatore, where he received a BE in electronics from the Coimbatore Institute of Technology before coming to the U.S. in the 1990s to earn an M.S. in computer engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
By 2010, when he moved to Google as vice-president of engineering after a year as entrepreneur-in-residence at Greylock Partners, he had built a formidable reputation as a code wizard with several patents to his credit. In June 2014, shortly before he was diagnosed with cancer, Google named him engineering head for YouTube.
By 2010, when he moved to Google as vice-president of engineering after a year as entrepreneur-in-residence at Greylock Partners, he had built a formidable reputation as a code wizard with several patents to his credit. In June 2014, shortly before he was diagnosed with cancer, Google named him engineering head for YouTube.
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