Site Reliability Engineer at Google
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Site Reliability Engineer at Google
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- Lead Sysadmin, Undergraduate Computer Science Cluster; IMSS House Rep at California Institute of Technology
- Technical Operations Manager at Three Rings Design
- Undergraduate Research Fellow at California Institute of Technology
- Contract Software Engineer at Demidec
- Systems Administrator at College Preparatory Mathematics
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- California Institute of Technology
- College Preparatory School
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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
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Site Reliability Engineer
Google
(Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)
* Provided on-call support for 10+ key internal employee productivity applications and for BigTable service.
* Led team disaster preparedness, privacy/security, and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance efforts.
* Re-platformed legacy applications onto Google's cloud computing infrastructure to improve supportability.
* Wrote tools to boost team productivity and give internal HR customers self-service, secure access to data.
* Led effort to migrate Perforce servers from Red Hat to Ubuntu and wrote tools to verify replication integrity. -
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 2006 — January 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. -
Technical Operations Manager
Three Rings Design
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Games industry)
March 2005 — January 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.
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Undergraduate Research Fellow
California Institute of Technology
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)
June 2006 — August 2007 (1 year 3 months)
Engaged in ongoing research into stomatal development in Arabidopsis thaliana, and CLE family genes.
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Contract Software Engineer
Demidec
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; E-Learning industry)
June 2005 — August 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.
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Systems Administrator
College Preparatory Mathematics
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Primary/Secondary Education industry)
June 2004 — August 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.
Elizabeth Fong’s Education
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California Institute of Technology
Biology, Computer Science 2005 — 2008
Went on indefinite sabbatical in 2008 from BS program.
- Activities and Societies:
- Blacker, Dabney, UGCS
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College Preparatory School
HS Diploma , 2001 — 2005
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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
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Caltech Alumni Association -
The College Preparatory School of Oakland (College Prep, CPS)
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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