Joint meeting with the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) at Google Kirkland

Amanda Camp
Software Engineer, Google
 

6-6:20 pm: Optional tour of the facility

6 pm: Networking and hors d'ouevres
6:45 pm: General Announcements
7:00 pm: Presentations
8:15 pm: Networking and Close
 

Have you ever searched on Google and wondered why your website didn't show up in the results? Have you created your own website and wanted to know how to let Google know about it?

Many webmasters have these questions, and Google wants to help answer them. However Google faces an interesting problem in how to communicate with numerous webmasters and address their individual questions and issues.

Google Webmaster Tools is a way for Google to communicate with webmasters all over the world. Amanda Camp from the Webmaster Tools team will discuss the challenges faced in opening up the lines of communication between Google and webmasters, as well as the technical issues around developing a scalable way to provide answers to webmasters' most common questions.

Working in the Innovation Factory

What's it like to work as a test engineer at Google? Lydia will discuss the environment that management creates and the engineering challenges our teams face. What makes Google such an exciting, challenging, and rewarding place to work?

Lydia is a senior QA manager at Google, overseeing many teams of quality assurance testers responsible for a wide variety of products ranging from Google Talk, Gmail, and Google Apps to Google SiteMaps and Google Video. Lydia's book The Web Testing Companion has received recognition as one of the foremost books on testing web applications. Prior to Google, Lydia managed testing for teams at Microsoft.

Amanda Camp

Amanda Camp is a software engineer for the Google Webmaster Central team. She works closely with webmasters to help them improve their sites for both Google and their users, and she also shares her knowledge about the intricacies of Google search. When she came to Google in January 2005, her starter project was to design and implement the Sitemaps web frontend. That project launched after five months of development. It has since been renamed Webmaster Tools and has been localized in 17 languages. Prior to joining Google, Amanda received a BS in Computer Science at the University of Arizona.
 

Google is hosting a conference on scalability in June and would greatly appreciate AWC members' participation in their conference on scalable systems. If you have a great new idea for handling a growing system or an innovative approach to scalability, Google wants to hear from you!