Heather Adkins is an 18-year Google veteran and founding member of the Google security team. As Senior Director of Information Security, she has built a global team responsible for maintaining the safety and security of Google’s networks, systems, and applications. She has an extensive background in systems and network administration with an emphasis on practical security and has worked to build and secure some of the world’s largest infrastructure. She now focuses her time primarily on the defense of Google’s computing infrastructure and working with industry to tackle some of the greatest security challenges.
Betsy Beyer is a Technical Writer for Google in NYC specializing in Site Reliability Engineering. She coauthored Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems and The Site Reliability Workbook: Practical Ways to Implement SRE (O’Reilly). En route to her current career, Betsy studied international relations and English literature, and she holds degrees from Stanford and Tulane.
Paul Blankinship manages the technical writing team for Google’s Security and Privacy Engineering group, and has helped develop Google’s internal security and privacy policies. In addition to his career as a technical writer, he is an actively performing musician in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Piotr Lewandowski is a Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer and has spent the past nine years improving the security posture of Google’s infrastructure. As the Production Tech Lead for security, he is responsible for harmonious collaboration between the SRE and security organizations. In his previous role, he led a team responsible for the reliability of Google’s critical security infrastructure. Before joining Google, he built a startup, worked at CERT Polska, and got a degree in computer science from Warsaw University of Technology.
Ana Oprea specializes in security, SRE, and planning and strategy for Google’s technical infrastructure—a role that follows naturally from her previous experience as a software developer, technical consultant, and network admin. Having worked and studied in Germany, France, and Romania, she accounts for different cultural approaches when facing any challenge.
Adam Stubblefield is a Distinguished Engineer and the Area Tech Lead for security at Google. Over the past eight years, he’s helped build much of Google’s core security infrastructure. Adam has a PhD in computer science from Johns Hopkins University.