Director of Engineering
Google

Katharina Probst is a Director of Engineering at Google, where she works on cloud infrastructure that powers much of Google Cloud Platform. If you’re a Google Cloud customer, you’ll likely rely on software her team has built. Before Google, she was a Director of Engineering at Netflix, where she was responsible for the Netflix API, which helps bring Netflix streaming to millions of people around the world. She also holds a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University. Her technical focus is on scalable distributed systems and cloud computing, but her interests go beyond the technical to the human, where she is passionate about building effective and successful teams and organizations across the world.

You can find her on LinkedIn here.