Meet our dedicated Google mentors
Alan Ranciato
Customer Engineer, Google
Alan’s current focus and passion is on DevOps transformation including application modernization, microservice architecture, containerization, CI/CD, and cloud architecture. He has been with Google since June 2019 and specializes in Application Modernization and Hybrid Cloud architecture. Alan holds an undergrad degree in Technology Management and an MBA from the University of Florida. Additionally, he has earned multiple industry certifications including the Google Cloud Professional Architect, Data Engineer, Cloud Developer, and DevOps Engineer designations.
Anita Rezaei
Account Executive | Startup Success Manager
Anita is an account executive for Google Cloud Platform living the west coast life in beautiful British Columbia. In Anita’s free time you will find her hiking in the mountains, paddle boarding on the lake or catching the sunset at the beach.
Bruno Rodrigues
Field Sales Rep, Google Cloud
Experienced tech professional with experience working at & with Founders/Startups. Background includes HealthTech, FinTech, Gaming, Media & Entertainment, MarketingTech and beyond. Certified Google Cloud architect that has onboarded 50+ Startups to Google Cloud across North America, comfortable with both infrastructure and data layers of tech stack.
Chizuru Uko
Associate Account Strategist, GCS Scaled, Google
I’m an experienced account strategist known for being a top performer in my program and team player. I thrive in ambiguity and my curiosity allows me to develop innovative solutions to help our advertiser partners reach their business objectives. I believe my ability to accomplish whatever challenges that are placed in front of me comes from my passion, tenacity, and persistence to continue to grow and develop skills that make me a greater asset for Google as a whole.
Daniel Padgett
Conversation Design Lead, Google
Daniel is a Conversation Design Lead for Google Assistant, creating engaging experiences for Home, Pixel, Wear, and more. For the past 15 years, he has been leveraging language technologies to develop user-centered solutions for major brands like Allstate, Nike, Target, and Cisco. Just prior to Google, he led service design efforts as Director of Customer Service Experience at Walgreens, deploying proactive and personalized contact solutions for roughly 100 million customers at more than 8200 stores.
Dinesh Chahlia
Engineering Manager & Trusted Advisor for GFS, Google
Engineer leader with Google Shopping and Trusted Startup Advisor for GFS. Worked with over 50 startup founders over the last year and advised them on Vision, Roadmap, Product Market Fit, OKRs, Pitching and Fundraising.
Drew McKechnie
Customer Success Manager, Google
Drew is an entrepreneurial strategic thinker with more than 20 years of experience providing technical expertise and consulting services to public and private organizations. A certified Project Management Professional and Professional Cloud Architect, he specializes in organizational strategic planning, concept visualization and communication, and the application of effective design toward expedited delivery. According to his colleagues, Drew's strength is his ability to "provide a great combination of process knowledge, business acumen, hard work, and an innate sense of how to put efficient and intuitive customer services together."
Drew Stevens
Cloud Solutions Architect, Google
Drew Stevens has over two decades of experience in software technology design, project management, marketing, user experience, and entrepreneurial pursuits, both in and out of the enterprise. His industry experience ranges from consumer products to government legal transparency, to distributed knowledge management applications, to energy optimization. After a recent series of startups, Drew is thrilled to be working at Google to help make cloud easier for Google Cloud customers.
Dylan Scott
Content Moderation Specialist, YouTube
Dylan is an expert communicator with a passion for sharing the creations of others with the world. He spent three years working for a live entertainment startup , and loves all things creativity. He is resilient and open-minded, and a leader to his core. Any questions about design thinking, social media (or really any media), failure (learning from it), collaboration, and communication should go right to him.
Himanshu Kapoor
Customer Success Manager, Google
Seasoned technology executive with multifaceted leadership experience in scaling businesses from ground up, Go To Market Strategy, Customer Experience & Sales strategy. Passionate about enabling startups that solve meaningful problems for businesses & society, advisory experience with early stage B2B startup contributing to eradicating poverty.
Jon Harmer
Product Manager, Google
Jon is a product manager at Google on the Gmail team, focusing on platform and extensibility features that enable rich integrations with Google Workspace, including AMP for Email, and Google Workspace Add-ons. Prior to Google, Jon worked for 20+ years as an executive leading product management and marketing teams for companies including Nexidia, EyeWonder, and Verio. He served as a mentor to startups at Atlanta Tech Village and Techstars and co-founded LaaSer Critical Communications.
Kai Yee Wan
Partner Engineer, Google
Kai Yee an engineer and cross-functional collaborator at the intersection of hardware and software. At Google, he works with manufacturers to develop and build next-generation Chromebook devices, and embedded software for smart home devices integrating with Google Assistant. Before that, he was an embedded software engineer at Qualcomm. He loves to engage with anyone about Internet of Things, mobile computing, or just tech and product in general.
Kevin Wang
Head of Business Development, Google Travel, Google
Kevin is responsible for Google strategic partnerships with the world's top travel companies and airlines. Before moving to the business side, Kevin was engineering manager/TLM and built an airline reservation system. Before Google, Kevin worked for startups at various stages.
Nima Jafarian
Product Manager, Google
I'm a former semiconductor R&D engineer turned Google PM, with a lot of stops in between. I've seen a lot of things and I've done a lot of things at a lot of different places up and down the value chain. Surfing, snowboarding, gaming, and copious amounts of kombucha help me maintain my work life balance.
Nirmal Veerasamy
Sr. Software Engineer, Google
Nirmal is a tenured technology professional, with over 15 years of industry experience and 10 years at Google. He is excited to bring his expertise on large scale distributed system designs, Google Cloud and Kubernetes/Istio to help teams grow.
Rafa Barroso
Solutions Architect, Google
Googler in NYC, GCP Solutions Architect focus on Retail & FSI, Former CIO & Co-Founder @ Parlevel Systems, Google for Startups Agent, Area 120 Contributor, Code Next Coach, Techstars and 3Day Startup Mentor.
Steven Nunez
ITRP, Google LLC
Steven is a part of Google's ITRP program, his role is about providing IT support for Googlers, for a duration of 26 months as well as being part of other projects so he can land in the next role. He has IT expertise as well as Business knowledge, real estate.
Yaeka Katsuta
Program Manager, Google Cloud
Yaeka’s career has primarily been in early/mid stage startups involved in their strategic growth. Her expertise is with Program/Product Management, Customer Success, and entrepreneurship which she further developed through my MBA. She’s worked with healthcare tech, API workflow products, and at Google she supports their analytics platform Looker.