Tanya Reilly has over twenty years of experience in software engineering, most recently working on architecture and technical strategy as a Senior Principal Engineer at Squarespace. Previously she was a Staff Engineer at Google, responsible for some of the largest distributed systems on the planet. Tanya writes about technical leadership and software reliability at http://noidea.dog. She's an organizer and host of the LeadDev StaffPlus conference and a frequent conference speaker and keynote. Originally from Ireland, she now lives in Brooklyn with her spouse, kid, and espresso machine.