Jennifer Petoff

Jennifer Petoff is the co-editor of the bestselling book "Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems" and is a globally recognized expert on SRE education. She is the lead author of Training Site Reliability Engineers: What Your Organization Needs to Create a Learning Program.

Known as The Reliable PgM(TM), she is an advocate for applying SRE principles to a wide range of program management situations.

Jennifer is an avid public speaker and has given talks, keynote presentations and participated in panel discussions at DevOps, SRE, and other industry conferences in 16 countries (and counting) on four continents. Jennifer joined Google in 2007 after spending eight years in the chemical industry. She holds a PhD in chemistry from Stanford University, along with a BS in chemistry and a BA in psychology from the University of Rochester in New York.

Jennifer and her husband Scott are avid travelers and have lived in the US, Ireland, and now Portugal. Jennifer loves travel writing and door photography, both of which you can find on Sidewalk Safari.