Melanie Gabriel Curtiss

Site Reliability Engineering at Google

Palo Alto, California

Overview

Melanie Gabriel Curtiss is a highly accomplished professional with a background in product management and software project management, having held key roles at Google, Waymo, Aggregate Knowledge, Yahoo!, and other prominent tech companies. Currently serving as Google's Cat Herder Emeritus, she has demonstrated expertise in managing technical programs and engineering teams, with a focus on search advertising, product launches, and business planning. Highlights of Melanie's career include her tenure at Google as a Manager in Workspace Technical Program Management and Senior Engineering Program Management, where she oversaw projects related to GSuite Search, Intelligence & Assistant, and Google Apps, showcasing her strong leadership and strategic planning skills in driving successful product launches and ensuring scalability in mobile applications.

Work Experience

Google

Manager, Workspace Technical Program Management, Site Reliability Engineering
2022 - Current
Lead and manage a high-performing team of TPgMs in SRE focused on ensuring exceptional uptime, performance, and scalability for Google’s productivity suite (Gmail, Drive, Calendar, etc) and GenAI features

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

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Waymo

Technical Program Manager, Perception
2022 - 2022
Managed cross functional teams to deliver onboard sensor hardware and ML initiatives; Championed ML productivity and reliability initiatives.
Manager, Technical Program Management, AV Cybersecurity
2019 - 2022
Led and managed inaugural Cybersecurity TPM team, safeguarding IP & pioneering AV cybersecurity.

Waymo is a mobility technology company that improves transportation by developing self-driving solutions for travelers and daily commuters

Raised $11,100,000,000.00 from T. Rowe Price, Perry Creek Capital, Fidelity, Silver Lake, Alphabet, Tiger Global Management and Andreessen Horowitz.

waymo.com

Google

Manager, Senior Engineering Program Management, GSuite Search, Intelligence & Assistant
2019 - 2019
Led and managed the GSuite Search, Intelligence, and Assistant TPM team at Google; Oversaw technical program management for search and assistant functionalities across all Google Apps (Gmail, Drive, Calendar, etc.), Cloud Search, and Search Infra.
Manager, Engineering Program Manager, GSuite Search, Intelligence & Assistant
2017 - 2019
Engineering Program Manager, Google Apps, Platform, Security & Privacy
2015 - 2017

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

google.com

Google

Engineering Program Manager, gTech & CorpEng
2011 - 2014

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

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