About Jonathan
Technical leader and systems architect focused on performance, memory, and scalable computing.
Jonathan Beard sits at the intersection of leadership and deep technical execution. As a System Performance Architect at Google (Austin), he leads the teams responsible for the performance and TCO of Google's internal System-on-Chip (gSoC) program, defining how future hardware handles the world's most demanding workloads.
His approach to systems architecture is informed by a diverse and rigorous background: a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Washington University, an M.S. in Bioinformatics from Johns Hopkins, and a decade of leadership as a U.S. Army officer in Europe and Central Asia.
Before Google, Jonathan was a Principal System Architect at Arm, leading research into scalable memory and processor communication. He remains deeply embedded in the code as the primary author of the RaftLib C++ library and an active voice in the open-source and academic research communities.
He is also an inventor on numerous patents and author of peer-reviewed publications.