Heather Adkins is a 17-year Google veteran and founding member of the Google Security Team. As Sr 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 Site Reliability Engineering in NYC, and the editor of Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems and The Site Reliability Workbook. She has previously written documentation for Google’s Data Center and Hardware Operations Teams in Mountain View and across its globally-distributed data centers. Before moving to New York, Betsy was a lecturer on technical writing at Stanford University. En route to her current career, Betsy studied International Relations and English Literature, and holds degrees from Stanford and Tulane.

Paul Blankinship manages the Technical Writing team for Google’s Security and Privacy Engineering group. He’s previously written documentation for Google Web Designer, and helped develop Google’s internal security and privacy policies.

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