Michelle Brush has 25 years of software development experience working across embedded software, distributed systems, enterprise platforms, and consumer devices. In her current role at Google, she leads the global teams of SREs that ensure Compute Engine and Persistent Disk are reliable. She is also the author of 2 of the 97 Things Every SRE Should Know. 

Previously, Michelle worked for Cerner Corporation as a software engineer where she built features for clinicians and later was responsible for the data engineering platform for Cerner’s Population Health products. Prior to her time at Cerner, she was the lead engineer for Garmin's automotive routing algorithm and led the map technology department responsible for Garmin’s spatial search, data compression, and shortest pathfinding algorithms. If you’ve ever gotten a route you didn’t like using a Garmin device, it was probably Michelle’s fault.