Google SRE NY Tech Talk

Google SRE NYC is proud to present our latest Tech Talk. We have an exciting lineup of speakers, followed by a social mixer with light snacks and beverages. We look forward to seeing everyone on Nov 2 at our Chelsea Markets office. The spaces are limited, pls RSVP now and secure your spot. Our venue this time is right above the famous Chelsea Markets. Enter the Google Chelsea Markets lobby via the 9th Ave (cor. 16th St) stairs B or use the elevator 33. We will have our team members and Google security to guide you and assist with elevator access.

Ellora Praharaj (Stack Overflow) - "The Good, the Bad, and the “Uh …” [Agile for SRE & Platform teams]"

Ellora Praharaj is the Director of Reliability Engineering at Stack Overflow. As a technologist with over a decade of experience working with and building high-performing engineering teams, she oversees the SRE teams at Stack Overflow. Previously, she spent over 11 years at Bloomberg, where she was an Engineering Team Lead in their SRE organization. Ellora received her Masters Degree in Computer Science from University of Buffalo.

In this presentation, we'll dive into the challenges with enforcing Agile processes for SREs. We'll take a look at some real-world challenges that SRE and platform teams face when navigating the Agile landscape, drawing from my own experience leading such teams. We'll also discuss some strategies for overcoming these challenges, and look ahead to the future of Agile and SRE.

Michelangelo Mecozzi (Google) - “Handling Spiky Traffic At Scale”

Michaelangelo is an SRE on Firebase NYC team at Google, he is a cuisine fanatic, soccer lover (AC Milan fan)

Learn how to prepare your service to handle spiky traffic generated at scale. We will explore the challenges, best practices, and lessons learned while managing traffic generated by the FIFA 2022 World Cup.

José Velez & Pascal Bovet (rely.io) - “The journey of building a startup in the reliability space”

José is the Founder & CEO of Rely.io, where he put together a team of talented people passionate about SRE and Platform Engineering who are building an internal developer portal that allows engineering teams to get automated visibility into the inventory of services and user journeys and into their health, quality and operational maturity. Prior to founding Rely, Jose built an internal AIOps observability tool for EDP as a SWE.
Pascal Bovet is an entrepreneur and startup advisor. Prior to that Pascal led the Reliability Department of Robinhood and led multiple infrastructure SRE teams at Google.

Delivering fast and maintaining reliability is no small feat. In today's economic climate, this is crucial for companies to thrive - sometimes even to survive.

Join Jose and Pascal and they share their journey to build a startup that aims to solve the biggest challenges engineering teams face that prevent them from achieving high velocity without compromising quality.

They'll cover everything from the customer discovery they did to understand the key market pain points, to the SRE and Platform Engineering practices they ended up productising into the developer portal they built. No sales pitch, just sharing practical knowledge and experiences.