Raymond Blum

Raymond Blum was most recently a senior staff engineer at Google Deepmind where he led a cross-functional team responsible for Gemini policy compliance. Previously he had been an engineering manager and tech lead at Google on a variety of technical infrastructure and site reliability missions, including creating the largest single purpose macOS fleet in the known universe. He led and advanced the data recovery and integrity teams at Google for several years and has published articles on the topic of digital data permanence and reliability for the Association of Computing Machinery, and with Google.

Prior to this he created and ran an internet services company for several years, after a career as a software developer in media and financial firms. During this time, he taught undergraduate computer science and professional skills workshops for the City University of New York.

Raymond holds degrees in computer science from the City University of New York.

Raymond contributes his time and guidance to organizations which promote and provide equal access to careers in the professional world to all.

When not thinking about work related topics, Raymond devotes his time to painting and makes friends with robots.