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. Track record of reducing operational toil and designing automation that accelerates velocity.
Technical Skills

Languages

  • Golang
  • Python
  • Java
  • Shell scripting

Infrastructure

  • Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform)
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • CI/CD pipeline design
  • Multi-region cloud architecture

Reliability & Observability

  • SLO / SLI development
  • Monitoring & alerting
  • Troubleshooting & incident command
  • Capacity planning & disaster recovery

Leadership

  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Technical project management
  • People management (teams of up to 8)
Experience
GoogleGoogle
Multiple teams & locations
Flights iconSenior SRE, Real World Journeys (Flights) and Search AI
November 2024 — Present • Cambridge, MA

Developing production standards and guardrails for new AI features like AI Mode and AI Overviews, while continuing to maintain high standards for legacy Flights infrastructure.

VertexSenior SRE, GCP Vertex AI
March 2024 — November 2024 • Cambridge, MA

Reduced toil and manual effort for the rapidly growing Vertex AI product by building model turn-up automation and TPU management tools to support reliability at scale.

Google for CliniciansSenior SRE & Manager, Google for Clinicians
April 2021 — February 2024 • Cambridge, MA

Built a team to take a product built for research purposes and make it ready for production use by healthcare providers, with a focus on reliability, scalable operations, security, and compliance.

Senior SRE & Manager, Reliable Tools
September 2019 — March 2021 • Cambridge, MA

Led a team building production-principles compliance automation and organizational reporting tools to enable data-driven decisions and auditability for 1000+ microservices across the organization.

Flights iconSenior 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. Contributed to Flights Insights features.

MapsSenior 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.

GoogleSWE, Instant Indexing
July 2013 — April 2014 • New York City, NY

Worked on features for Google's instant indexing system, in particular the system which determines the priority and frequency of website indexing.

SRE, Sashimi SRE (Multiple Services)
July 2012 — July 2013 • New York City, NY

Built release automation and monitoring tools for multiple services including Google's fresh tools for multiple services including Google's fresh indexing system, Web History, and the social annotations store.

Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology — B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science
2008 — 2012