# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/urs-holzle
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:45:13.715Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/urs-holzle"
name: "Urs Hölzle"
slug: "urs-holzle"
description: "Urs Hölzle is a Swiss-American software engineer and technology executive. As Google's eighth employee and its first VP of Engineering, he has shaped much of Google's development processes and infrastructure, as well as its engineering culture. His most notable contributions include leading the development of fundamental cloud infrastructure such as energy-efficient data centers, distributed compute and storage systems, and software-defined networking. Until July 2023, he was the Senior Vice President of Technical Infrastructure and Google Fellow at Google. In July 2023, he transitioned to being a Google Fellow only."
tagline: "Swiss computer scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Urs_Holzle_2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
birthDate: "2000"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.02
  momentum:             14.35344827586207
  historical:           5.912530666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/uhoelzle"
    handle:    "uhoelzle"
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urs_H%C3%B6lzle"
    title: "Urs Hölzle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urs_H%C3%B6lzle"
    title: "Urs Hölzle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urs_H%C3%B6lzle"
    title: "Urs Hölzle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B9%8C%E5%B0%94%E6%96%AF%C2%B7%E9%9C%8D%E6%B3%BD%E5%B0%94"
    title: "乌尔斯·霍泽尔"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9A%B0%EB%A5%B4%EC%8A%A4_%ED%9A%8C%EC%A6%90"
    title: "우르스 회즐"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urs_H%C3%B6lzle"
    title: "Urs Hölzle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7901133"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump