Spotlight on Munich
Monday, May 27, 2019
At this event, you will hear tech talks about cutting edge technologies from Google Chrome, Site Reliability Engineering and recently launched game development platform Stadia, as well as learn about Google Shopping, Product Infrastructure and other teams. Additionally, the event will include candid discussions and networking opportunities.
Agenda
16:30 Registration & mingling
17:30 Opening keynote
17:50 Lightning talks from the following teams:
- Google Chrome
- Game development platform Stadia
- Site Reliability Engineering
19:00 Break
19:15 Panel Discussion "Life at Google"
20:00 Getting to know Google Munich teams
20:15 Networking & dinner
Janina Voigt
Staff Software Engineer and Manager
Janina has been working at Google for more than four years and manages a team in Munich that works on signing users into their Google accounts. Janina joined Google directly after her PhD in October 2014. Before that, she completed an internship at Google in 2011 when the Munich office was much smaller than it is today.
Bartosz Fabianowski
Staff Software Engineer and Manager
Bartosz spent many years exploring the world, studied in Germany, New Zealand and obtained a PhD in Ireland. He joined Google seven years ago and has been in Munich ever since, enjoying the mountains in his free time and the varied challenges faced by an engineer at work. He started transitioning into management three years ago and now leads a team of a dozen people. His areas of expertise are Chrome, Chrome OS and Android.
Yinfu Chen
Site Reliability Engineer
Yinfu grew up in a small town in the US named Kearney, Nebraska and has been working at Google for more than four years. Yinfu started as a software engineer on the Firebase Test Lab team in Mountain View, California, and after learning more about site reliability engineering (SRE), decided to relocate to Munich and has been working on the Build SRE team ever since. Yinfu's team is responsible for making sure that Google's internal build stack is up and running. One of Yinfu's favorite things about Google is the amazing people. In her free time, Yinfu enjoys learning new things (e.g. languages, cello, skiing) and sleeping.
Susanna Zaraysky
Content Strategist, Material Design
Content Strategist, Material Design Susanna has been working at Google for over four years in California, specializing in accessibility and how to design products that work in emerging markets and for people without regular access to the Internet. Outside of work, Susanna is an avid language learned and traveler.
Jochen Eisinger
Director of Engineering
Jochen is a Director of engineering at Google, currently responsible for making Chrome the most trustworthy and safest tool for browsing the web. He has worked on various parts of Chrome for the past 9 years, starting a software engineer in the Munich Chrome team working on privacy features.
Murat Mutlu Öztürk
Software Engineering Manager
Murat has been working at Google for nine years and has worked in three Google offices (Seattle, London and Munich). Murat is currently building a team in Google Shopping. Murat has BSc and MSc degrees in Computer Science and has worked in various tech companies (Microsoft, Boeing, etc.) before joining Google. He is the happy father of Ada Lara (eight years old) and likes to play volleyball and cook in his spare time.
Tamara Jiménez
Software Engineer
Tamara has been working at Google for 4 years. She is the tech lead of an infrastructure team handling account creation and mutation. Before joining Google she was teaching theoretical computer science at a University in Texas. Most of her spare time is spent chasing after her boys (5 years and 6 years) and her dog.
Michael Gucwa
Senior Product Manager, Stadia
Michael is responsible for the developer experience on Stadia (stadia.dev), which he has been working on for the last three years. Previously at Google, he has worked on the Chromecast and Google Home teams. Michael started his career in the games industry working at Xfire and Trion Worlds, a PC game studio, best known for “Rift”.
Marius Nünnerich
Site Reliability Engineer
Marius grew up in a small village in Germany and studied Computer Science at the University of Siegen. Before Google, Marius worked as a Software Engineer and as a System Administrator. He started at Google Dublin as an SRE in the Hardware Operations SRE team and after a few years relocated to Munich and moved to the Test SRE team. Marius' team provides services, such as: continuous testing, serving test results, automatic artifact creation and issue tracking.
Raajkumar Subramaniam
Senior Software Engineer
Raaj works with Material Systems Team at Google New York Campus. He is currently working on improving the Material Android library. Raaj has designed, developed and managed large scale projects in server, desktop and mobile application space. He enjoys learning new technologies. Raaj is a professional DJ and robotics coach outside work. His current personal project is to create life-like robotic dog.