The original transformer team very much has executed on making successful implementations of transformers ... just not for Google. Clearly something went a bit wrong at Google brain in 2017.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashish-vaswani-99892181/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/noam-shazeer-3b27288/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikiparmar/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakob-uszkoreit-b238b51/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aidangomez/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukaszkaiser/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/illia-polosukhin-77b6538/

Only one remains at Google:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/llion-jones-9ab3064b