Sundar Pichai Biography 
Sundar Pichai, also known as Pichai Sundarajan, is an Indian American computer engineer. He was born in 1972 in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India. He became the Chief executive officer of Google on 10th August 2015.
Sundar completed schooling in Jawahar Vidyalaya, a Central Board of Secondary Education school in Ashok Nagar, Chennai and completed the Class XII from Vana Vani Matriculation Higher Secondary School in the Indian Institute of Technology Madras campus. He studied Metallurgical Engineering (B.Tech.) at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and was awarded Silver Medal for his performance in his studies. Then he joined Stanford University and obtained his M.S. degree in Material Science. He finished his Master of Business Administration (MBA) at the Wharton School of Business. He was glorified as Siebel Scholar and Palmer Scholar.
He was handling various projects at Applied Materials and was in the position of engineering and product manager. He also worked as the management consultant with McKinsey & Company for a number of software and semiconductor clients. He joined Google in 2004 and was leading the product management and working for the Google’s client software products that include Google Chrome and Chrome Operating System.
He gave demonstration of the Google Chrome Operating System on 19th November 2009. He open sourced the new video codec VP8 on 20th May 2010 and introduced a new video format WebM. He has 12 years of experience in developing the high tech consumer products. His group introduced various Google products that include Google Toolbar, iGoogle, Google Chrome, Desktop Search and Gadgets, Gears and Google Pack.
The Chrome OS he launched is supposed to be a lightweight, open source operating system that mainly targets at netbooks. It integrates the Web browser directly into the OS. He is married and has two children, a son and a daughter. He is a good chess player.
Pichai is married to Anjali Pichai and has two children. He lives in Los Altos Hills, California. Pichai's interests include soccer and cricket. He is an avid fan of FC Barcelona.
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Updated: October 02, 2017
