Website: dropbox.comBiography
Tammy Butow is a Site Reliability Engineering Manager at Dropbox. She likes leading distributed teams, Go, databases and problem solving. She is an Australian living in San Francisco, where she runs @ladieswholinux after founding the group in New York. Tammy is a cofounder of Girl Geek Academy.
Tammy greatly enjoys leading 24/7 distributed engineering teams focused on automation, performance tuning and reliability. Prior to leading teams, she worked as a Product Engineer (full-stack and mobile), Security Engineer and Infrastructure Engineer for several years after studying Computer Science. Tammy has worked with physical infrastructure for the past 10 years and has experience providing cloud infrastructure as a service. Tammy grew up and studied in Australia, she has been living and working in the USA for 2 years.
Tammy built her first website when she was 12 and has been involved in building the web ever since. She has a passion for increasing the number of women building and deploying apps to the cloud, she co-founded Girl Geek Academy and Ladies Who Linux. She grew Girl Geek Dinners Melbourne from 300 female members in 2013 to over 1000 in 2014. Tammy ran Australia’s first all-female hackathon in Melbourne, She Hacks: http://www.afr.com/news/policy/industrial-relations/yoga-and-a-healthy-breakfast-to-get-women-hacking-20140317-ixdeu
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