Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 4 mos

• Keynote speaker, Content Creator, Visual storyteller, Advisor
• Skills: Developer growth strategy, narrative positioning, product education, category thought leadership, enterprise sales enablement
• 🤝 Want to work with us? contact@thecloudgirl.dev

May 2019 – Jul 2024 · 5 yrs 2 mos

• As an L7 Lead a team of Developer Advocates to grow Google Cloud community in North America and Canada. I'm Chief Evangelist for Google Cloud, driving adoption through engaging content and industry leadership. I drive the success of Google Cloud by collaborating with product, engineering, and customers. I lead product ideation, create in-demand features, and champion cloud adoption through conferences, workshops, and a best-selling cloud technology book Visualizing Google Cloud.
• Storytelling: Recognized as a visual storytelling expert, I create innovative learning materials like bite-sized social media content, short explainer videos, and even sketches and comics!
• As a technical storyteller, my YouTube channel, blogs, and tutorials have garnered over 2 million views, 850,000 subscribers, and nearly 100,000 followers.
• Strategic Launches: I contribute to go-to-market strategies, including the successful launch of Generative AI products, leading to over 100,000 new active users. My #1 bestselling book, "Visualizing Google Cloud," with over 15,000 copies sold in just 5 months and stellar reviews, helps tech professionals master cloud skills and land jobs. It's currently being translated for even wider reach.
• Industry Expert & Community Builder: A sought-after speaker at over 50 national and international conferences, I've empowered an estimated 200,000 tech practitioners to embrace the cloud.
• I facilitate smooth cloud adoption by collaborating with Google engineers and architects to support customers.
• Product Innovation: In addition to being a cloud champion, I bring a product management perspective. I create prototypes and work closely with product and engineering teams to deliver valuable features.
• One highlight is an interactive product cheat sheet, now used by 100,000 recurring users, that empowers customers to navigate Google Cloud's vast offerings (220+ products). I'm adept at identifying customer needs, like the need to visualize complex cloud deployments.

Jul 2017 – May 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Responsible for go-to-market strategy of Google Cloud products; Worked with customers to transform their technical infrastructure; Developed strategies to build and deploy scalable and efficient Cloud applications. Projects included:
• o Directed partners (Deloitte & Accenture) to create Cloud solutions to help large customers migrate to Cloud to reduce
• infrastructure cost, increase flexibility and improve their developer productivity and speed to market. .
• o Organized a team of Google engineers and a retail startup to build and deploy their e-commerce application in Google Cloud
• infrastructure to address inventory and operational challenges.
• o Worked with customers across industries (Uber, Charles Schwab, Nvidia) to migrate their traditional customer service
• application to modern ML/AI based chat applications.

Oct 2016 – Jul 2017 · 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Apr 2015 – Oct 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Mar 2014 – Apr 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

• Focus on providing distributed API Solutions - a building block to mobile, web and IoT (Internet of Things) architectures.
• Helping companies create API strategy and architect API management solutions.
• Articulating the value of SaaS and multi-tenant API Management solution with security gateways
• Solution demos with focus on API architecture and Web Technologies.
• Architecting REST and OAuth API solutions applying Internet technologies and protocols.
• Specialize in designing API solutions on Intel Mashery Platform for cloud, hosted and on-premise
• solutions.
• Specialize in customizing the web portal for demos and proof of concepts, for new prospects using
• HTML and CSS skills.

Nov 2012 – Mar 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Pre-Sales business solutions consultant.
• Market the technical advantage and business benefits of Angel.com software products to clients and prospects.
• Develop comprehensive presentations and proposals integrating Angel.com IVR and business process analysis.
• Work with and speak knowledgeably about trends in software technology, SaaS, Web2.0, IVR, ASR, CRM, CTI, VoIP, TDM and HTML5.
• Architect, build and present technical prototypes of the Angel.com solution.
• Implement entire suite of business solutions in rapid development and proof of concept scenarios where customers or prospects evaluate in a live or development environment.
• Articulate complex customer experience concepts and topics to novice and technical audiences.

May 2011 – Nov 2012 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Automated and enhanced existing regression test coverage to about 3 times thereby reducing the test execution time from one month to a week.
• Independently owned performance and quality of product, including automation and testing management.
• Created detailed reports and business analysis for stakeholders.
• Managed simultaneous projects in Agile setup; align performance and quality engineering resources
• towards them.
• Worked with product managers to gather product specifications and convert them into technical specifications for engineers. Helped with gathering client analysis data for use in product feature enhancements.
• Handled user experience improvements and analysis.

Jun 2010 – Sep 2010 · 3 mos

Sep 2009 – May 2011 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Provided one on one counseling for students, assisted in Java programming labs.
• Instructed undergraduate Mathematics course