Elizabeth Fong

Elizabeth Fong

Site Reliability Engineer at Google

San Francisco Bay Area

Current
  • Site Reliability Engineer at Google
  • Chief Information Officer at Techneome
Past
  • Technical Operations Manager at Three Rings Design
  • Lead Sysadmin, Undergraduate Computer Science Cluster; IMSS House Rep at California Institute of Technology
  • Undergraduate Research Fellow at California Institute of Technology
  • Systems Administrator at College Preparatory Mathematics
  • Contract Software Engineer at Demidec
Education
  • California Institute of Technology
  • College Preparatory School
Connections
74 connections
Industry
Computer Software
Websites

Elizabeth Fong’s Summary

Software engineer specializing in designing and working on complex, large software projects. Systems administrator experienced primarily with Linux and Mac OS X.

Elizabeth Fong’s Specialties:

Java, Python, PHP, SQL wizardry, XHTML/CSS-compliant web design, network administration, clusters


Elizabeth Fong’s Experience

  • Site Reliability Engineer

    Google

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GOOG; Internet industry)

    January 2008Present (7 months)

  • Chief Information Officer

    Techneome

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Biotechnology industry)

    February 2007Present (1 year 6 months)

    Co-founder and minority shareholder of biotechnology consulting firm, providing technical expertise for initial operations.

  • Technical Operations Manager

    Three Rings Design

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Games industry)

    March 2005January 2008 (2 years 11 months)

    Engaged in programming, bugfixes, and technical assistance to support staff for Puzzle Pirates. Wrote support ticket management system currently in use.

  • Lead Sysadmin, Undergraduate Computer Science Cluster; IMSS House Rep

    California Institute of Technology

    (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    February 2006January 2008 (2 years)

    Acted as lead systems administrator for the student volunteer-run UGCS computing cluster at Caltech, overseeing overhaul of the UGCS infrastructure for greater performance, security, and scalability for future growth.

    Maintained computer labs, house servers, and provided technical support to students in Blacker House and Dabney House as a student representative of Information Management Systems and Services at Caltech.

  • Undergraduate Research Fellow

    California Institute of Technology

    (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)

    June 2006August 2007 (1 year 3 months)

    Engaged in ongoing research into stomatal development in Arabidopsis thaliana, and CLE family genes.

  • Systems Administrator

    College Preparatory Mathematics

    (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Primary/Secondary Education industry)

    June 2004August 2005 (1 year 3 months)

    Provided network administration and end-user support of Mac OS X, Word, and MathType to working group of 20-30 high school math teachers, including establishing common fileserver, backup scheme, centralized printing without pre-existing network infrastructure.

  • Contract Software Engineer

    Demidec

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; E-Learning industry)

    June 2005August 2005 (3 months)

    Acted as principal software architect and programmer of a program to hold a testbank of quiz questions and associated answers, citing sources, and allowing students to access the questions and share lists of questions.


Elizabeth Fong’s Education

  • California Institute of Technology

    Biology, Computer Science 20052008

    Went on indefinite sabbatical in 2008 from BS program.

    Activities and Societies:
    Blacker, Dabney, UGCS
  • College Preparatory School

    HS Diploma, 20012005


Additional Information

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Elizabeth Fong’s Interests:

piano, swimming, late night coding

Elizabeth Fong’s Groups:

Blacker House, Dabney House, UGCS, JHU CTY, Johns Hopkins CTY, Center for Talented Youth, CTY Lancaster, The College Preparatory School, Oakland

  •    Caltech Alumni Association member
  •    The College Preparatory School of Oakland (College Prep, CPS) member

Elizabeth Fong’s Honors:

National Merit Finalist, 2005
Richter Scholar, 2006 Caltech Undergraduate Research Fellowship program


Elizabeth Fong’s Contact Settings

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