Cody Zhou

Site Reliability Engineer at Google

Mountain View, California, United States

About

Making massive stuff scale efficiently and reliably. Big fan of blameless postmortem culture, eliminating technical debt, and building awesomeness for awesomeness' sake.

Experience

  • Site Reliability Engineer at Google
    Sep 2013 - Present ยท 12 yrs 10 mos

    Site Reliability Engineer in Search Ads. (My formal position is SWE-SRE: software engineer in site reliability engineering.) * Upheld a stringent SLO as member of oncall rotation * Assessed, mitigated, and prevented future occurrences of revenue-impacting incidents * Worked with engineers on my team and across Google to: design, implement, maintain, and fight technical debt on new and existing internal tools and standards (in Python); scale the ads system efficiently, both in terms of machines and human time; and improve documentation and communication across teams. * Mentored a newer engineer