Rebecca Bianco Hedditch

Site Reliability / DevOps Engineer

Rebecca Bianco Hedditch
Arlington, MA
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Experienced and well-rounded SRE with 13+ years at Google, specializing in leading complex cross-functional projects to improve system reliability and scalability. Expert in Golang, distributed systems, and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC). Proven at reducing operational toil and designing automation that accelerates velocity.
Technical Skills
Golang Python Java Shell IaC CI/CD Observability SLO/SLI Capacity Planning Incident Command
Experience
Google — Senior SRE, Real World Journeys and Search AI
November 2024 — Present • Cambridge, MA
  • Developed production standards for observability, automated testing, and incident response for AI-driven products.
  • Served as technical liaison between product and infrastructure teams to ensure launch readiness.
  • Maintained high availability while modernizing legacy infrastructure.
Google — Senior SRE, GCP Vertex AI
March 2024 — November 2024 • Cambridge, MA
  • Designed turn-up automation for new global regions, cutting manual effort from weeks to days.
  • Built a Golang system for dynamic TPU management to optimize infrastructure spend.
  • Supported rapid product launches, maintaining 99.9% uptime at peak traffic.
Google — Senior SRE & Manager, Google Health
April 2021 — February 2024 • Cambridge, MA
  • Reduced operational load >90% by automating failure resolutions and refining alerts.
  • Led a multi-site team of 7 SREs to migrate a research product to a multi-tenant architecture.
  • Defined production readiness guidelines to bake security and reliability into new products.
Google — Senior SRE & Manager, Reliable Tools
September 2019 — March 2021 • Cambridge, MA
  • Built compliance automation to audit thousands of microservices for production principles.
  • Redesigned organizational reporting tools in Golang to enable data-driven decisions.
Google — Senior SWE, Google Flights
October 2017 — September 2019 • Cambridge, MA
  • Architected a new API suite to replace a monolithic system and eliminated 50,000+ lines of redundant code.
Google — Senior SRE & Manager, Geo
April 2014 — September 2017 • Sydney, Australia
  • Automated deployment pipeline for 90+ microservices to ensure predictable, low-risk releases.
  • Managed a team of 8 engineers supporting mission-critical tile-serving infrastructure.
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology — B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science
2008 — 2012