Spencer Kimball is the CEO of Cockroach Labs, where he leads the development of scalable and resilient database solutions. Prior to this, he was an engineer at Square, contributing to their payment platform, and served as CTO at Viewfinder, overseeing social photo-sharing applications. He also spent nearly a decade at Google as a Staff Software Engineer, working on projects like the Google Servlet Engine and Colossus, Google’s distributed file storage system. Earlier in his career, Spencer co-founded WeGo Systems, where he led technology development. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.