I’ve spent nearly two decades working on the systems behind the systems.
I’ve worn a lot of hats along the way—web developer, IT consultant,
systems administrator, network engineer, reliability engineer, and
security technical lead across startups, universities, and Big Tech.
That range gave me a practical understanding of how applications,
networks, infrastructure, operations, and security fit together—and
where they tend to fail each other.
At Google, I became the company’s first Black woman Site Reliability
Engineer. Over time, my work shifted from keeping large systems reliable to
securing the infrastructure and trust decisions underneath them.
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer and Security Tech Lead, I’ve worked
across several security domains. I’ve led efforts to protect enterprise
compute and storage infrastructure from insider threats and other risks;
designed zero-trust architectures, vulnerability-management programs,
and security capability roadmaps; and helped raise security maturity
across a mix of on-prem and cloud environments.
Today, I work on Core Security Infrastructure spanning identity, access,
and software supply chain security—in plain English, the systems that help
decide who gets access to what and
which software can be trusted to run.
A big part of my job is taking ambiguous security problems, breaking them down,
and getting them to a point where teams can make good decisions and move forward.
That often means making the tradeoffs clear, bringing people with
different priorities into alignment, and helping shape risk and architecture
decisions that work for the organization as a whole.
I’ve also been self-hosting, automating, and building on-premise systems
for years. Privacy has long been part of that practice. I’m now expanding
that work professionally, with a focus on helping executives and other
high-risk individuals understand how scattered pieces of digital exposure
can become meaningful risk once they’re connected.
