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Adam Jones
Head of Industry, Financial Services
Google
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Adam believes in marketing as a tool for solving real business problems. For the past 10years Adam has partnered with leading Financial Services organizations to solve their biggest challenges and drive profitable growth through the power of Google technology. Prior to Google Adam was leading teams and building a career in Financial Services as a business owner with P&L accountability, as an analyst creating customer segmentations and predictive models, as a marketer and as a strategist.
Akash Mann
Senior Product Manager
Google Cloud
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With over 15+ years of experience in product management across enterprise technology products/platforms and AI/ML technologies, Akash is a Product Leader at Google, where he is building, optimizing, and scaling Gemini LLM models and Generative AI capabilities from research to production for Product Areas (PAs). Prior to Google, he worked in AWS AI/ML, where he managed a portfolio of AI powered PaaS and SaaS offerings.
Akshat Khanna
Product Manager
Google Cloud
Dedicated Mentor
Akshat has 8+ years of professional working experience in technology, product management and entrepreneurship with a focus on taking a very customer-centric and user-first approach towards developing and designing technology products. With a bachelors in electrical engineering and an MBA, he's co-founded (and sold) a performance apparel company, been the first product hire at a 10-person startup, and been part of the growth trajectory of a Series-A startup by being around for 2 funding rounds. His professional experience spans healthtech, fintech, manufacturing technology, marketplaces, and machine learning. Most recently, he works as a product manager on the Google Cloud Marketplace team, straddling between both the consumer and partner (seller) experience side of things.
Allen Chang
Software Engineer Manager
Google Cloud
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Allen has had over 12 years of experience as a SWE in financial services and finance tech. He started his career at Goldman Sachs where he worked for 11+ years, culminating in the launch of multiple financial products for Marcus by Goldman Sachs (marcus.com) and the Apple Card. Allen spent a short stint at a financial tech company called Happy Money where he was tasked with building out the SRE team there. Most recently, Allen joined Google in January 2022 as a software engineering manager in the Search Platforms team, and transitioned to Cloud/TI in August 2024.
Allen is also a member of an angel investing collective focused on finding and investing in startups in the sustainability and climate technology space.
An Nguyen
Staff Software Engineer
Google
Dedicated Mentor
An is an execution-focused product engineer with a passion for building great software. In 2020, she joined Google Cloud through the acquisition of Looker. Prior to that, her career spans over five startups, where she has delivered products in diverse domains such as DevTools, ML Ops, BI, and GenAI. She enjoys the challenge of creating products from scratch, navigating ambiguous problem spaces, and designing iterative solutions. As a leader, she's had the privilege of mentoring many individual contributors, helping them thrive in their professional journeys.
Arsho Toubi
Customer Engineer, Security Specialist
Google Cloud
Dedicated Mentor
Arsho is a seasoned technology leader with over 7 years of experience at Google as a Security Architect where she currently works with enterprise clients on their cloud security strategies. Prior to Google, she held leadership roles at Morgan Stanley and IBM. Arsho's background also includes startup mentorship with NEXT AI and lecturing at Polytechnique Montréal. She is committed to fostering innovation, education and inclusivity within the tech community.
Austin Fisher
Senior UX Content Designer
Google
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Austin is a Senior UX Content Designer on the Material Design guidelines team. He has 7 years of experience in UX Writing and Content Design, with a focus in Information Architecture, Interaction Design, and high-level UX Strategy. He's been working at Google for 6 years, previously on Stadia, making it easy to develop and publish video games on the cloud, and currently on Google Design Platform, expanding the Material design system's structure to adapt to the ever-growing amount of devices and best practices.
Brooke Simon Krebs
Recruiting Manager
Google
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Brooke has over 10 years of Talent Acquisition experience, with the last 5 leading and managing high-performing recruiting teams at Google. Brooke started her recruiting career at a boutique staffing firm in Silicon Valley where she primarily worked with early and growth stage startups to build and scale their teams. She has also volunteered as a business advisor to entrepreneurs in need of HR and talent-related support.
Cloud Field Sales
Google Cloud
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Bruno has been working with startups at Google for over 5 years providing them with mentorship across the Google for Startups Accelerators programs and in his core role at Cloud. His experience has exposed him to founders from early to late stage as he helped them navigate technical and go to market challenges. He's a certified Google Cloud Digital Leader and is deeply passionate about both Cloud and entrepreneurship. Bruno has worked with founders in several industries including healthtech, cybersecurity, fintech, ecommerce and beyond.
Bryan Zimmerman
Product Manager, Google Cloud
Google Cloud
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Sales Manager
Google
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Cammy is a growth leader with 15+ years of marketing, sales, and leadership experience at Google and Microsoft. Currently leading Google Canada's Accelerate Growth Team, she empowers businesses to achieve transformative growth with Google Ads. Her career at Google spans roles in Toronto, Hong Kong, and the US, including managing key accounts like Rogers, launching new sales teams amidst challenging circumstances, and consistently exceeding growth targets. Cammy's expertise lies in driving strategic growth at scale and building high-performing teams.
Software Engineer
Google Cloud
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Catherine leads a team bringing genAI features to Google Workspace products. During her 9-year career at Google, she has built and launched applied ML features for various consumer-facing products including Photos, Assistant, and Shopping. Catherine is currently serving as an AI advisor for a non-profit and has previously participated in a Google.org Fellowship, leaving her day job at Google for 6 months to work full-time for alongside engineers at a nonprofit to build scalable technical solutions. She received her PhD in Computer Science, with a focus on computer vision/ML, from UCSD and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from UIUC.
Software Engineer
Google
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Charles is a Software Engineer at Google, specializing in designing and implementing innovative software solutions that optimize infrastructure for supercomputing and data storage. With a focus on creating denser, more efficient data center resources, Charles plays a key role in advancing scientific research, AI, and big data analytics. By improving resource allocation and optimizing cloud architecture, Charles is driving the future of computing at Google, ensuring faster data processing and real-time applications while reducing the need for additional infrastructure.
Product Operations Manager
Google
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As a product operations leader with extensive experience developing and executing strategic plans, I drive collaboration across the teams I lead. I create and direct cross-functional operational cadences. Nurture authentic and meaningful connections with colleagues, stakeholders, and leadership by creating productive experiences through innovation, creativity, and exceptional attention to detail. Partner with executives and stakeholders to lead high-profile projects, evaluate opportunities, and orchestrate complex business activities. Lead, coach, and mentor cross-functional teams and align on shared goals.
Expertise: Product operations, business operations, strategic planning, executive presence, stakeholder relations, sales, marketing, business development, machine learning data operations, program management, team development, influence across teams, customer insights & research.
Product Strategy Lead
Google
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Curren Chadha has 9 years of Google experience across Ads Account Management, Cloud Consulting, and Product Strategy. He has a strong aptitude for strategic product development and go-to-market execution, and has consistently driven significant ads revenue growth, particularly within the Retail & Travel industries at Google. He also has experience in Cloud Consulting, where he fostered client relationships and optimized cloud service adoption in the automotive industry. Curren’s ability to navigate complex projects, coupled with his data-driven approach, has consistently delivered measurable results and earned him recognition for his strategic contributions. He also has an MBA from Kellogg and has had previous experience advising Startups at 1871 in Chicago. He is currently a Product Strategy Lead within America’s Performance Go-To-Market team at Google.
Cloud Architect
Google Cloud
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Daniel is currently working as a Cloud Security Architect at Google helping companies with foundational security in the cloud, previous areas they’ve also worked at Google was a Principal Architect in Financial Services as well as a Partner Solution Architect in the Channels organization. Daniel has over 26 years of industry experience and was the Chief Platform Architect for AWS globally at HSBC Bank prior to joining Google and worked at a startup, "Organic.com" back in the dotcom days.
Field CTO, Startups
Google
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David has spent over 20 of his 30 years working in startups. David started in Silicon Valley back in 2000 just before the big crash and was in startups up until 2019 when the startup that he was with was purchased by Google. He has held titles including CIO, COO, VP IT, VP Cloud. David has been through every stage of rise and fall of startups, as well as all the adventures around fund raising, hard pivots, and customer growth.
Financial Analyst
Google
Dedicated Mentor
Debbie has 3+ years of experience in Finance, with experience ranging from compliance to technical financial planning and analysis. Before Google, Debbie worked as a Digital Marketer at Amazon and at Acelerada (Grupo Bimbo). She is looking forward to supporting startups and helping startups achieve full potential.
Principal AI/ML Architect
Google Cloud
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Diman Ghazi is a Machine Learning and GenAI Tech Lead in Google Cloud where she helps enterprise customers to prototype, build and productionize their large scale ML models and end to end ML solution. Prior to Google, Diman was a Data Scientist working on building document understanding models in the Watson Discovery team at IBM. Her enthusiasm for NLP started during her masters and PhD when she spent about a decade on various NLP problems such as summarization, NER, sentiment/emotion analysis, and legal domain understanding.
Doug Ferraz
Systems Engineer
Google
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Doug is the archetypical maker and loves the space where hardware meets software. He has 8+ years of experience creating embedded software and hardware products for Smart Home and Medical monitoring equipment. He has previously worked as a management consultant and in market intelligence for the energy sector. He currently works in a Partner Engineering team that helps physical product companies to connect to Google in Smart Home and Personal Health spaces.
Elena Kingbo
Product Manager
Google
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Experienced product manager, with both business and technical background, Elena worked in various product areas within Google (Ads, Workspace, Gemini) and had an opportunity to experience multiple roles (sales, strategic accounts management, operations, program delivery, product design and strategy). Elena is passionate about helping non-tech businesses integrate technology.
Emmanuel Awa
Technical Solution Architect, Generative AI
Google Cloud
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Emmanuel is a Generative AI Solutions Architect and Applied AI Engineer at Google with over 12 years of experience in the AI field. He currently focuses on building enterprise-grade solution frameworks using Vertex AI first party foundation models and commercializing research to enhance customer-facing and internal workflows with Generative AI. Prior to Google, Emmanuel worked at Microsoft, where he developed and deployed machine learning and deep learning models for various domains, including enhancing the Bing Ads Campaign Platform with NLP capabilities. He is passionate about creative mediums like photography and documentary filmmaking, driving innovation with AI, collaborating to create value for customers, and actively engaged in personal and professional coaching, real estate investments, and mentoring.
Senior Software Engineer
Google Cloud
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Eric has 5.5+ years of experience building large, scalable backend/distributed systems for Pandora and Google. Most recently Eric was on the Stadia infrastructure services team for 4.5 years working on game launch flow, VM management, and notifications. He's currently a Senior Software Engineer on the Labs team working on AR/VR related efforts.
Greg Laporte
Product Manager
Google Cloud
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Greg has been working in technology for the past 15 years. He started a small consulting business when he was in university, then he started working full time at Coveo, a Canadian tech company for almost 10 years. Greg started as a software engineer and eventually transitioned into product. He's been involved in building the most important product for Coveo at the time and he's been working at Google for the last 2 years on building sovereign clouds.
Gautami Nadkarni
Senior Solutions Architect
Google Cloud
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Gautami is a highly accomplished Cloud Architect with over nine years of experience in customer-centric roles, bringing a wealth of knowledge in Cloud technology and end-to-end Data Strategy. Her expertise spans leading complex cloud migrations, delivering impactful proofs-of-concept, and presenting compelling technical presentations and demonstrations, consistently positioning her as a trusted advisor to Enterprise clients. Specializing in Data Analytics and Management, Cloud AI, Gautami has a proven track record of partnering with Fortune 500 companies to drive business transformation through strategic technology adoption, championing a cloud-first approach. Beyond her technical acumen, she is a dedicated leader in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, both within Google and across her customer engagements, fostering environments that value diverse perspectives and encourage innovation.
Harika Rama Tulasi Karatapu
Customer Engineer, Networking Specialist
Google Cloud
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lHarika is a Network Specialist at Google Cloud, where I leverage my 12 years of experience in cloud and traditional networking to help businesses build secure and efficient network infrastructure.
Currently, Harika leads networking solutions for enterprise accounts in the North America, and is the lead for Health Care Accounts collaborating with them to create scalable and robust network solutions. Harika also provides Network Solutions for SaaS Customers through SaaS Accelerator Program, Before Google, she honed her expertise at Juniper Networks and Amazon Web Services, where Harika focused on network optimization and troubleshooting. Harika is passionate about finding innovative solutions to complex networking challenges and staying at the forefront of cloud technology. She is also a certified JNCIE-ENT and JNCIE-DC, PCNE, PCSE demonstrating my deep understanding of network architecture and design.
Harry Chan
Senior Account Manager
Google
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Harry is a seasoned digital marketing expert with a proven track record of driving profitable growth for SMBs and early-stage startups across the globe. His 8+ years of international experience in banking, consulting, and marketing across Asia and the Americas provide him with a unique global perspective and a wealth of knowledge to share. Harry is a passionate mentor and educator specializing in Google’s marketing solutions, dedicated to helping others achieve their business goals.
Technical Lead/Manager
Google
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Jason leads a Chrome team to ensure there are reliable metrics to capture real world user experience on the web. Before Google, Jason spent 10+ years leading and growing agile teams to deliver great products and systems on the web, including SaaS, enterprise software, and custom solutions. Jason has a wide range of experience in startups, interacting with customers from small client consultations up to multi-year engagements with Canada’s largest financial institutions. Above all, Jason wants to improve the web so users have better experiences and broader opportunities.
Joey Fascio
Senior Account Manager
Google
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Joey is a results-driven digital marketing professional with 10+ years of experience igniting brand growth and exceeding business objectives. He thrives on developing and implementing comprehensive digital strategies that leverage the power of paid ads, social media, compelling design, and AI. His expertise extends to strategic planning, global campaign management, and fostering strong cross-functional partnerships.
Julien Coupez
Cloud Engineer for Startups
Google
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Julien is an experienced technology leader, formerly CTO of a startup in warehouse management systems, now dedicated to helping young Canadian startups build and succeed on GCP as part of Google's startup team. Julien is actively mentoring startups in the Montréal ecosystem to achieve high growth by unlocking technical challenges.
Senior Product Manager
Google
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Jon is a product manager at Google on the Google Cloud team, working on API infrastructure for Cloud Products. Previously at Google, Jon was on the Gmail team, where his team built platform and extensibility features that enabled 3rd parties to integrate with Google Workspace. Jon has more than 20 years of experience at startups and midsized companies, mostly in the SaaS and online media spaces, has been on the early team at a few startups and also co-founded LaaSer, a Techstars Atlanta ‘16 company. Jon has also been a mentor to startups through Google For Startups, Techstars, and Atlanta Tech Village.
Cloud Solutions Consultant/Architect
Google Cloud
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Kaushal is a startup success mentor with a passion for guiding entrepreneurs to achieve their goals. With extensive experience in the Telco/IT/Cloud industry, he excels at translating complex technical concepts into actionable business strategies. Kaushal's expertise lies in: startup success Mentoring, strategic thinking and execution, product and project management, along with effective communications and leadership. Kaushal's commitment to continuous learning is evident through his impressive collection of professional certifications and executive education. He is dedicated to leveraging his expertise and experience to empower startups on their journey to success.
Kiran Sachdeva
Strategic Partnerships Lead
YouTube
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Kiran has extensive experience developing and scaling partnerships at major media companies, currently working in Strategic Partnerships at YouTube. She specializes in negotiating and executing complex commercial deals, including pioneering first-of-a-kind partnerships, developing global strategies and launching new business lines from concept to profitability. Before YouTube, Kiran led digital products and partnerships at NBCUniversal, where she spearheaded innovative distribution and monetization initiatives. Earlier in her career, she worked at UBS Financial Services, managing a significant portfolio of assets for corporate clients. She brings deep expertise in strategic planning, revenue growth, and cross-functional leadership, particularly valuable for startups navigating partnership development, distribution strategies, or scaling their business.
Lakshmanan Sethu Sankaranarayanan
Technical Account Manager, Gen AI Solutions
Google
Dedicated Mentor
Lakshmanan is a Technical Account Manager for Google Cloud in North America where he works with enterprise customers to help them succeed on Google Cloud. He is currently focusing on Generative AI/ML & Data Solutions. With more than a decade of experience in the technology industry, Lakshmanan has a passion to transform enterprise organizations with Google Cloud. Prior to Google, He had helped fortune 500 companies to migrate to cloud across North America & Asia & UK regions.
Laura Balkovich
Chief of Staff and Directors of Strategy & Business Operations
Google
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Laura is a seasoned leader with nearly 25 years of experience in strategy, business operations, sales operations, and chief of staff functions in the tech sector. She has expertise in strategic business planning, scaling teams and driving alignment across organizations. The unifying thread throughout her varied career has been to work closely with senior executives to learn how their organization works, make it better, and ultimately help the leadership team realize their vision. Laura spent many years in the Google Ads team before making a change to Engineering several years ago, where she currently supports a large Security Engineering org in a Chief of Staff role. Before Google she worked at several internet advertising startups and has a passion for supporting women & other underrepresented founders.
Mahdi Ghadamyari
Software Engineer
Google Cloud
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Mahdi is a Software Engineer at Google, working on Google Cloud Platform with a focus on security and scalability. He previously contributed to various startups, leading full-stack development and cloud architecture efforts. His expertise spans distributed systems, cloud computing, and scalable software design.
Principal Engineer
Waymo
Dedicated Mentor
Manojav is a principal engineer at Waymo, building AI/RL based solutions to improve simulation.
Before Waymo, Manojav led Search ads teams to build Local Campaigns product. He helped incept and grow the map ads team and was first to monetize maps. Prior to that Manojav was a founding member of Similar audience targeting (and later auto-targeting) and helped grow business from 0 to 1.
He is a passionate and hands-on leader and cherishes mentoring and grooming colleagues to bloom into successful tech leaders and managers.
Maryam Moadeli
Tech Solution Consultant
Google
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Maryam is a tech solutions consultant, leveraging her expertise in data science and GenAI to drive impactful AI integration for internal stakeholders at Google. With over five years of experience in data science, including her role as a data scientist at RBC, she excels at translating complex analytics into practical, AI-driven solutions. Before transitioning into data science, she spent two years as an IoT developer at a startup, where she gained hands-on experience with connected systems and emerging technologies. Beyond her technical skills, she is a dedicated mentor, empowering individuals to unlock innovation and career growth through strategic AI applications.
Michael Kim
Global Partner Marketing Lead - Google Workspace
Google Cloud
Dedicated Mentor
Michael is a seasoned marketing leader known for driving partner success and product adoption for Google Workspace. He has a proven track record in scaling partner ecosystems, building go-to-market strategies, and delivering partner enablement programs and demand generation campaigns. Michael is passionate about empowering businesses with the tools and resources they need to drive customer growth and innovation. He previously led partner marketing for communication service providers (CSPs) at Google Cloud and led B2B product marketing for the mobile and cloud business units at Telus Communications.
Nivedita Kumari
Data Analytics Customer Engineer
Google Cloud
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Nivedita has 6+ years of experience in Software Development, Data Analytics and Technical Consulting. She holds a Master of Science in Technology Management with a focus on Data Analytics. Nivedita has gained valuable experience in the startup environment through her work as a Data Science Intern at Roadzen and a Business Consultant at IBC. In her current role, she proactively engages with customers to help them with their architecture reviews, answer questions about Google Cloud Data Products, and conduct proof-of-concepts and demos. She is a highly skilled and experienced professional with a proven track record of success.
Product Manager
YouTube
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Rebecca is a Product Manager at YouTube Podcasts, where she leads the development ML-based solutions to improve search and library quality. Her product management expertise spans software (Google Search and YouTube) and hardware (Pixel phones), complemented by a diverse background in B2B/B2C roles across cloud architecture, software engineering, and data analysis. This breadth of experience enables her to tackle the multifaceted challenges faced by startups. Having mentored startups in Australia and Southeast Asia, she brings a strategic, problem-solving approach to help founders build and scale impactful products.
Product Manager
Google Cloud
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Rahul Ramachandran is a seasoned product manager with over a decade of experience in cybersecurity and enterprise security. As Product Manager at Google Cloud, he has driven significant growth and led cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions in zero trust, identity and access management, and multi-cloud security. Previously, at Juniper Networks, Rahul managed Next-Gen Firewall portfolios, driving strategic product launches and GTM initiatives. He is an expert in zero trust, generative AI in security, and data and threat prevention. Rahul holds a Master’s in Networking, Security, and Systems Administration from RIT and certifications from UC Berkeley Haas. Passionate about innovation and collaboration, he creates secure, scalable solutions that address evolving enterprise security challenges.
Customer Engineer, Machine Learning, Healthcare
Google Cloud
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Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Google
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Saurabh is a an experienced Site Reliability Engineer with a decade of experience in the critical domain of ensuring the uptime, performance, and scalability of complex systems. His expertise spans managing, architecting, and optimizing cloud infrastructure specifically for cloud-native applications, giving him a deep understanding of modern technologies like containers, microservices, and orchestration platforms. Currently, Saurabh works as a Senior SRE for Google Search, where he tackles the unique challenges of maintaining the reliability of one of the world's most heavily used and intricate systems. Prior to Google, he worked at Okta, a leading identity management company, where he gained valuable experience in security best practices and the complexities of managing sensitive user data. This background provides him with a well-rounded skillset encompassing both the technical and security aspects of SRE.
Technical Program Manager
Google
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Swapnil currently works on high performance accelerators on GCP as a TPM. Swapnil has worked in a startup focussed on developing groundbreaking compiler and platforms for next gen accelerators. They have also worked on strategies for quantization/workload optimization for LLama 3.
Product Manager
Google Cloud
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Swati has 12+ years of experience and is currently working in Google as a Product Manager since last 5 years for the Infrastructure as Code teams in Google Cloud. Prior to being a Product Manager she has worked as a Software Developer and in Cx facing technical teams in Morgan Stanley , Informatica and Infosys. She has deep understanding in Linux , Big Data and cloud technologies. She has major interest in areas like technical troubleshooting , mentorship , interview coaching.
Partner Solutions Architect
Google Cloud
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Tarun has 15+ years of experience in technology, with a focus on security and blockchain. He has a deep understanding of cloud technology, application development, cloud security, and decentralized applications. Before joining Google, Tarun has co-founded two web development startups and bootstrapped them from a single person to 30 people. Most recently, Tarun has been leading partner engineering efforts in Google Cloud while focusing on cybersecurity and web3 enablement for partners to deliver quality products and services to the end customers.
Global Strategy & Operations Manager
Google
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Taslim looks after strategy and operations for Subscriptions (Google One, Photos & Fi) Marketing at Google. In this capacity, he leads strategy deep dives to help marketing leaders sustainably grow Google’s complex subscriptions, and help them to run a tight ship by managing ongoing business operations needs. He has also supported the Platforms & Ecosystems organization in the past including Android, Chrome, Enterprise, and Developer Marketing teams. Prior to this role, Taslim was a Product Manager on the Chrome Browser team where he built content products for the browser. Before that, he drove research and product marketing efforts for Search, YouTube and Assistant in Sub-Saharan Africa. He also worked with Google.org to run the Google Impact Challenge in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, which supported 36 nonprofits with $6M in grant funding.
System Development Engineer
Google Cloud
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Tejal Sandeep Ekbote is an experienced System Development Engineer with over five years of expertise in large-scale network operations, troubleshooting, and infrastructure management, particularly within cloud environments. Currently working as a System Development Engineer III at Google LLC in New York, Tejal has a proven track record of resolving complex networking issues, managing critical network incidents, and implementing sustainable solutions.
Key skills include network event management, incident response, large-scale network troubleshooting, configuration, optimization, and automation. Tejal is adept at cross-functional collaboration and technical documentation. Prior roles include Technical Solutions Engineer at Google and Azure Network Engineer at Mindtree Limited. Tejal holds a Master of Science in Telecommunication System Management from Northeastern University and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Mumbai.
Senior Account Executive
Google
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Thamiraa has 10+ years in the digital advertising and ad tech space, helping Canada's largest media agencies accelerate their performance through paid media and strategic thinking across the entire consume funnel. As a current Senior Account Executive, she has a passion for helping companies land the foundations of their business strategy and align it to the measurable results they want to achieve through the use of media and technology. Prior to Google, Thamiraa worked at AOL and Yahoo driving performance for clients across multiple verticals, and at Target, spearheading inventory management and sales forecasting for the retail behemoth.
Product Activation Manager
YouTube
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Will currently lives in NYC but spent his formative years in London, England. He went to Northwestern University to study economics & Chinese. He loves to problem solve, and so naturally started his career in strategy consulting at Deloitte where he provided market diligence and growth strategy to TMT clients. He then pivoted to TikTok as the first US strategy hire for TikTok Shop US, joining pre-product and helped the team find product market fit (generating $100M+ daily GMV over Black Friday '24). Will has a passion for social commerce and helping both merchants and creators, so recently joined YouTube Shopping on the product activation team. He is very excited to shape the product roadmap and launch new features.
Capital Engineering Principal
Google
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Yang led Sequoia Capital's investment strategy and operations function for ~ 2 years. At Sequoia, Yang helped manage the investment team's full end-to-end investment processes and design / execute strategy for our investment partners, while serving as the connective tissue between Sequoia's investment teams and operating teams
He was also a co-lead of Sequoia's EPD team, focusing on building the best investor and founder products for the ecosystem. Yang's expertise is in how a top tier VC funds make investment decisions, which extends to helping with early stage startup ideation, pitches, fundraising strategy, etc.
Software Engineer
Google Cloud
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Yatish has 10+ years of experience as a Software Engineer at Google. During his tenure, he has worked on several teams including Ads, Firebase, BigQuery, Assistant and is now is the Uber technical lead of the Cloud Healthcare team. As part of the Healthcare team, he has helped onboard various big healthcare providers to GCP like HCA, Mayo, etc.
Senior Software Engineering Manager
Google
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Yayun has 10 years engineering experience and 5 years of management experience working on consumer facing applications in Ads/Commerce. Yayun has worked on full stack with with primary focus on retrieval, ranking, ML/AI applications. Inside Google, Yayun has founded multiple initiatives as 20%, one of them is Google's price tracking feature which is now widely accessible to Google ecosystems, including Google.com/Chrome/Android used by Billions of users.
Staff Software Engineer
Google
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Yuvraj has 10+ years of experience in large scale software development, along with 1 entrepreneurial stint of 2 years. He started his software development journey during his undergraduate studies, with freelancing and building facebook apps that reached over million users. After graduating with a bachelors in CS degree, he joined Microsoft India and worked on search relevance team for 2 years. He left Microsoft to start an Edu-Tech startup which specialized in technical interviewing. Hiring challenges limited the scale for the startup. Yuvraj then decided to pursue a masters in CS from University of Massachusetts. He then joined Google and has since been working in the search ads auction infra team. Beyond general technical skills, his expertise lies in customer focused thinking, creative technical solutions to challenging problems and building efficient workflows.
Program Operations & Infrastructure Manager
Google Cloud
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Zachary has a diverse background in program management, strategy, and operations, with a focus on startups and AI. Currently, he leads analytics and operations for the Google for Startups Cloud Program at Google. Prior to Google, he honed his program management skills at Plaid and Amplitude. While at Salesforce, he worked on analytics and strategy, and separately led an employee resource group focused on reducing ageism. He also partnered with founders on growth, talent, and fundraising at Newchip Accelerator and mentored startups at Seedstars. His areas of expertise include program management, go-to-market strategy, startup growth, and operational efficiency.