Build Systems that Drive Business
June 11–12, 2018: Training
June 12–14, 2018: Tutorials & Conference
San Jose, CA
Tammy Butow

Tammy Butow
Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Gremlin

Website | @tammybutow

Tammy Butow is a principal SRE at Gremlin, where she works on chaos engineering—the facilitation of controlled experiments to identify systemic weaknesses. Gremlin helps engineers build resilient systems using their control plane and API. Previously, Tammy led SRE teams at Dropbox responsible for the databases and storage systems used by over 500 million customers and was an IMOC (incident manager on call), where she was responsible for managing and resolving high-severity incidents across the company. She has also worked in infrastructure engineering, security engineering, and product engineering. Tammy is the cofounder of Girl Geek Academy, a global movement to teach one million women technical skills by 2025. Tammy is an Australian and enjoys riding bikes, skateboarding, snowboarding, and surfing. She also loves mosh pits, crowd surfing, metal, and hardcore punk.

Sessions

9:00am–12:30pm Tuesday, June 12, 2018
How to establish a high-severity incident management program
Location: 230 A Level: Beginner
Secondary topics: Resilient, Performant & Secure Distributed Systems
Tammy Butow (Gremlin)
Average rating: ****.
(4.33, 3 ratings)
High-severity incident management is the practice of recording, triaging, tracking, and assigning business value to problems that impact critical systems in order to enhance the customer experience by improving your infrastructure reliability and upskilling your team. Tammy Butow walks you through establishing a high-severity incident management program and measuring its success. Read more.