Deniz Pecel

CTO

Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland21 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led engineering teams at Google for Cloud infrastructure.
Managed GCP Streaming Analytics products across multiple global locations.
Expert in building automation systems for network infrastructure.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Infrastructure and Network Engineering expert with extensive experience in large-scale systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud InfrastructureLeadershipData AnalyticsCloud ProductsNetwork EngineeringSdn

Other Skills

AutomationBGPBorder Gateway Protocol (BGP)Business StrategyChange ManagementCisco IOSCloudComputer Network OperationsCreativity and InnovationCross-functional Team LeadershipData CenterDistributed SystemsEngineering ManagementGoGolang

About

I am feeling lucky, for many reasons. Google has the most exciting distributed systems and network, and I work with the smartest and the best engineers in the world. Our job is to keep Google up and running in every corner of the world, deliver the best user experience possible and never stop innovating, we race with ourselves, challenge everything and have so much fun. What my teams do is described in detail here; https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html

Experience

Google

6 roles

Head, Cloud SRE Infrastructure

Promoted

Dec 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 3 mos

Leading engineering teams which are responsible for building cutting edge monitoring, production analytics systems for Cloud products and Cloud IRT team which manages top level incidents, buildings tooling to detect those, as well identifying Cloud wide risks and pushing for fixing them.

Creativity and InnovationCloud InfrastructureLeadership

Head, Cloud Streaming Analytics SRE

Sep 2019 – Mar 2023 · 3 yrs 6 mos

As Global SRE Product Group Lead for GCP Streaming Analytics I manage teams looking after Streaming Analytics products in Zürich, New York and Seattle. I am also responsible for GCP Data Analytics teams in Zurich, as Functional Site Lead for GCP Data Analytics.
We run the coolest and the best Bigdata products in the world; BigQuery, Pub/Sub, DataProc, DataFlow, Composer, Data Catalog, Data Fusion .. We look for talented engineers in this domain with real life distributed systems experience. Feel free to approach if you are interested.

Machine LearningSoftware DevelopmentInfrastructureData AnalyticsCloud Products

Head, Network Infrastructure SRE

Promoted

Jul 2016 – Sep 2019 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Managed the SRE teams responsible of Google's SDN, Admission Control(bandwidth enforcement), Host Networking and Edge/Backbone networks with 60+ engineers in Dublin.
Experienced senior leader; transformed teams, built teams from scratch, merged and turned down teams.
Led teams to build global SDN risk assessment/change management automation which target 0 downtime.
Led teams to build SLO systems, monitoring, self-healing, automated root causing, SLO driven fast release automation for critical systems.
Leading teams which lead and shape the software and networking industry as a whole.

Software DevelopmentInfrastructureNetwork EngineeringSDN

Manager, Google Production Network

Jun 2011 – Jun 2016 · 5 yrs

AS15169 - Google Production Network, Manager

Software DevelopmentInfrastructureNetwork Engineering

Tech Lead

Promoted

Jul 2010 – Nov 2011 · 1 yr 4 mos

AS15169 - Google Production Network Tech Lead

Network Engineer

Mar 2008 – Jul 2010 · 2 yrs 4 mos

AS15169 - Google Production Network
Primary task: keep Google up and running all over the World, help its growth.

Alcatel-lucent

International Support Engineer

Mar 2007 – Mar 2008 · 1 yr

Alcate-Lucent IPD Europe IP/MPLS TAC
Giving Customer support about Alcatel-Lucent IP/MPLS product portfolio customers from Europe, Africa, Middle East and South America Regions