Brona Robenek

Experience

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  Freelancer

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2012

  Software Developer

  Web Application Development (PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Zend Framework, MySQL, PostgreSQL)

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  ESA Education Office - European Student Moon Orbiter

  Jan 2010 - Apr 2012

  Attitude Interface Module - Software Specialist, QA

  Responsible for SW/HW Quality Assurence and several project documents:- Project Assurance (PA) plan- Interface Control Document (ICD)- Design Development and Verification Plan (DDVP)Represented AIM team at Preliminary Design Review (PDR) held at ESTEC in Noordwijk, Netherlands.

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  AutoCont CZ a.s.

  Jul 2010 - Sept 2011

  Lecturer

  Lecturing PHP and Web Development courses to professionals as well as to children.

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  Silicon Hill, CTU Prague

  Sept 2011 - Jan 2014

  Responsible for leading volunteer organization (3500 members) which operates Strahov dormitory network and other facilities (fitcenter, hackerspace, bee hive, ...)- Led a team of 9 managers and 200 volunteers.- Had role of chairman of the board (voted members)- Regulary participated in IT/Network division meetings.- Directly designed, developed and deployed information system to control and automate network related operations (120x Cisco C2960/S/X, Ruby on Rails, Postgre SQL, nginx, Linux HA, Debian, XenServer, Pacemaker, PowerDNS, Postfix, DHCP, Integration with LDAP and ActiveDirectory, 802.1x)- Founded Network Thursdays - Regular meetings for those interested in network technologies- Implemented new network features: IPv6 with DHCPv6, 802.1x, Backup internet connection, Border ACLs, S2S IPsec VPN to Remote Datacenter (Cisco IOS on C6500, NX-OS on N5548, ASA 5515-X and FWSM, PBR, NAT, VPC, LACP)- Implemented live traffic analysis - http://traffic.sh.cvut.cz- Implemented live tacacs reporting - http://tacacs.sh.cvut.cz- Developed information system to control organizational spending and financials[Czech only] 2013 Silicon Hill Information Systemhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hooazgFynSg[Czech only] 2014 IPv6 Deployment in Silicon Hill Networkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSCcmYEkIv8 Show less

  • Executive director

    Jan 2012 - Jan 2014

  • Training Center Representative

    Sept 2011 - Jan 2012
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  Cloud4com, a.s.

  Aug 2014 - Jun 2017

  Network Architect

  Responsible for network design, deployment, operations and monitoring (Cisco NX-OS, IOS, IOS-XR, UCS, VMware vSphere, Brocade Vyatta, VyOS, BIRD, Quagga, BGP, OSPF, ISIS, VPC, LACP, HSRP, BFD).RIPE LIR account management.Professional services (Consuling - HL/LL network design, HL/LL network assessments, Design review).Designed and deployed customer projects (IPsec VPNs, MPLS L3VPNs, Dedicated Circuits, Firewalls, Loadbalancers - nginx, F5 BIG-IP LTM)Design and deployment of internal DNS infrastructure (PowerDNS, Anycast).Participated in Linux Server Infrastructure automation development (Ansible, CentOS).Participated in product and SLAs specification. Show less

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  Google

  Aug 2017 - now

  ML Training SRE - Easy, efficient and reliable Machine Learning for Googlers Manager in ML Training SRE - Easy, efficient and reliable Machine Learning for GooglersI used to be Tech Lead and Manager (TLM), but decided to focus on the managerial path. Tech Lead in Core ML Training SRE Core ML Training SRE TSE Tech Lead (TL) for Cloud Networking/VPC, Kubernetes/GKE Networking, Network Edge, Internet- Solved advanced technical problems and investigated outages our customers faced across the whole Google networking stack/infrastructure.- Worked with PM, SRE and SWE teams on improving reliability and supportability of our products.- Worked as Subject Matter Expert and often provided tech talks or training to other engineers (TSS, TSE, SRE, SWE).

  • Staff Site Reliability Engineer

    Oct 2024 - now

  • Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

    Apr 2022 - now

  • Senior Site Reliability Engineer

    Nov 2021 - Apr 2022

  • Site Reliability Engineer

    Jul 2020 - Oct 2021

  • Technical Solution Engineer, Google Cloud

    Aug 2017 - Jul 2020