Michelle Brush, Google, Inc.
This session brings back the speaker of the plenary session “Taming the Unpredictable: Reliability in Chaos” talk as an "Ask Me Anything" Session host. Designed as an informal extension of the presentation, this is an open space to dive deeper into the technical nuances and follow-up questions that didn't fit.
Michelle Brush has 25 years of software experience working across embedded software, distributed systems, enterprise software, and consumer devices. In her current role as an Engineering Director at Google, she leads the global teams of SREs that ensure Compute Engine and Persistent Disk are reliable. She is also the author of 2 of the 97 Things Every SRE Should Know.
Previously, Michelle worked for Cerner Corporation as the Engineering Director responsible for the data engineering platform for Cerner’s Population Health products. Prior to her time at Cerner, she was the lead engineer for Garmin's automotive routing algorithm and later led the map technology department responsible for Garmin’s various spatial search, data compression, and shortest pathfinding algorithms. If you’ve ever gotten a route you didn’t like using a Garmin device, it was probably Michelle’s fault.
author = {Michelle Brush},
title = {{AMA} with Michelle Brush},
year = {2026},
address = {Seattle, WA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = mar
}