On this very special episode of the Google Cloud Platform Podcast, we have live interviews from the first day of NEXT! Melanie and Mark had the chance to chat with Melody MeckFessel, VP of Engineering at Google Cloud and Pavan Srivastava of Deloitte. Next we spoke with Sandeep Dinesh about Open Service Broker and Raejeanne Skillern of Intel.



Melody Meckfessel

Melody Meckfessel is a hands-on technology leader with more than 20 years experience building and maintaining large-scale distributed systems and solving problems at scale. As VP of Engineering, she leads the team building DevOps tools and sharing DevOps best practices across Google and with software development and operations teams around the world. Her team powers the world’s most advanced continuously delivered software, enabling development teams to turn ideas into reliable, scalable production systems. After graduating from UC Berkeley, Melody programmed for startups and enterprise companies. Since joining Google in 2004, Melody has led teams in Google’s core search systems, search quality and cluster management. Melody is passionate about making software development fast, scalable and fun.

Pavan Srivastava

Pavan is a technology leader with 20 years of experience in developing strategies and implementation of SAP focused technology solutions. Pavan leads Deloitte’s SAP technology capability that focuses on helping clients adopt innovative technology solutions such as cloud and SAP HANA to improve business efficiencies. Pavan has led several engagements helping clients develop strategy, architecture and implement SAP on the cloud and SAP HANA platform.

Sandeep Dinesh

Sandeep Dinesh is a Developer Advocate for Google Cloud. He blends and creates new opportunities for businesses and people by leveraging the best technology possible.

Raejeanne Skillern

Raejeanne Skillern is the VP of Data Center and General Manager of Intel’s cloud service provider (CSP) business. Her goal is to make it easier, more cost-effective and more efficient for CSPs to build new infrastructure and services. She is privileged to lead an exceptional team that manages Intel’s business, products and technologies for cloud infrastructure deployments and works closely with the world’s largest cloud providers to ensure Intel’s data center products are optimized for their unique needs.

Interviews


Cloud AutoML site
GKE On-Prem site
Melody Meckfessel’s Speaking Schedule at NEXT site
DevOps site
Google Open Source site
Cloud Build site
Spinnaker site
Kubernetes site
Stackdriver site
Application Performance Management site
OpenCensus site
Deloitte site
SAP site
Deloitte and Google Cloud blog
Google Cloud Platform Service Broker site
Open Service Broker site
Pub/Sub site
Cloud Spanner site
Intel Cloud Computing site
Intel Xeon site
Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory site
Partnering with Intel and SAP on Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory for SAP HANA blog


Where can you find us next?

We’ll both be at Cloud NEXT in Moscone West on the first floor! Come by and say hi!