Discussing allthings Crowdstrike, Postmortems & The potential Industry fallout

Hey SRE Melbourne,

This is more of a save the date, but we're looking at the next meetup focussing around the Crowdstrike incident, Post Mortems and the potential fall out for the industry for it.

Panel Member 1:

Frances Rees - Staff SRE @ Google

Frances Rees has been a Site Reliability Engineer at Google for the last nine and a half years based in Sydney, Dublin (Ireland), and recently Melbourne. She has an interest in simplifying systems and building resiliency, and has worked on products including maps, databases, cloud, and infrastructure. Frances enjoys being involved in the wider SRE community having co-chaired SREcon APAC in 2019, SREcon Conversations in 2020, and SREcon21.Her favourite snacks are Red Rock Deli Sweet Chilli and Sour Cream chips, which are somewhat difficult to obtain in Europe.

Panel Member 2:

Sarah Geisler - Senior Staff SRE @ Google

Sarah Geisler started her career as a Network Engineer at Cisco in Melbourne working with Australia's largest ISP. She then moved into Optical Network Engineering at Google Sydney in 2014 and learned Python. It was automating the network that brought her into SRE in Seattle. Since then she's worked across various Cloud Products, Search Infrastructure, Core Infrastructure, and most recently Privacy Infrastructure. She's been based in Melbourne since October 2023, and is excited to get to know the SRE community.Her favourite snacks are cheese and crackers, and she highly recommends Koko Black's salty cashew crunch for something sweet.

Thanks to our hosts Wesfarmers OneDigital, who will be providing the venue, food & refreshments.