Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Manager, Databases @ Dropbox helps users store and share more than a billion files a day. MySQL is one of the critical components of our infrastructure stack. We manage thousands of database servers through engineering automation tools we have created. We love Python and Go. We are based in SF, Vegas, Malta and Dublin. We also love Slack and Slackbots From October 2015 to Present (3 months) Platform Support Manager @ DigitalOcean are simplifying the cloud by providing an infrastructure experience that developers love. At DigitalOcean I managed a team of 30 Linux System Administrators working on a 24/7 rotation (1/3 of the company for many months!). My team were mostly remote in the US. 4 of my team members were based in the NYC office. I worked with the Director to hire 3 Managers. My talented team had an overall engagement score of 85%. Hear about my team: https://www.themuse.com/companies/digitalocean/people/tammy ** My Community Initiatives ** Hackathons * PennApps — the chillest hackathon ever! (Mentor): https://medium.com/@tammybutow/pennapps-the-chillest-hackathon-ever-79f2f2a22d3f * HackNY Hackathon (Mentor) : http://tammybutow.com/2014/10/19/hackny/ * HackRU Hackathon (Mentor) : http://tammybutow.com/2014/10/18/hackru-hackathon/ Speaking * OSCON - Linux Bootcamp: From casual Linux user to kernel hacker: http://www.oscon.com/open-source-2015/public/schedule/speaker/194831 * Code Palousa - Linux Bootcamp: www.codepalousa.com/speakers/tammy-butow/ * International Women's Day Brunch - https://twitter.com/tammybutow/status/574720308101398528 * Women Who Code NYC — Study Group at DigitalOcean (Host): https://medium.com/@tammybutow/women-who-code-nyc-study-group-at-digitalocean-b3398e75e5e5 * NYC Geekettes - Breaking Into Tech (Speaker) http://t.co/P6E6GA9Tlq * Ladies Who Linux (Organiser): http://tammybutow.com/2015/02/14/ladies-who-linux-launch-party/ Articles * Creating Chef Cookbooks To Manage Cloud Infrastructure https://medium.com/girl-geeks/writing-your-first-chef-cookbook-611bf665d205 * Learning the go programming language (November 2014) - https://medium.com/she-hacks-academy/learning-the-go-programming-language-7addb1370c4b?source=most-recommended * Go programming // Part 2 — Web Server (November 2014) - https://medium.com/she-hacks-academy/go-programming-part-2-web-server-36fe13d2e59c Mentoring: * Angelcube - Australian startup accelerator - 2015 intake. From July 2014 to September 2015 (1 year 3 months) Senior Software Engineer & Team Lead @ Senior Software Engineer, National Australia Bank Melbourne, Australia — 2009-2014 (5.5 years) http://www.nab.com.au/ Feb 2013 - 2014 (1 year 4 months) + Promotion to the NAB innovation department + Managed a team of 6 engineers and product designers to create a Learning Management System to empower customers to make wise financial decisions Oct 2011 - Jan 2013 (1 year 4 months) + Promotion to Senior Software Engineer role + Team lead for support and engineering employees + Technical Lead for Site Catalyst ( Omniture) implementation + Created NAB's first HTML5 mobile app. This app is used to process Foreign Exchange Trades. (Prototyping, Pitching, Costing, Design & Development) + Led a team of 10 developers and designers to create an Online Learning Academy for charity organisation REACH + Studied a Masters of Computer Science full-time while in this role July 2010 - October 2011 (1 year 4 months) + Managed the configuration of Oracle FlexCube for Payment Processing Day Zero (0) and DAY (1) + Facilitated 15 config co-development workshops with NAB, UBank and Oracle offshore developers + Creation of a weekly Detailed System Design for all global stakeholders + Shortlisted to top 3 of 300 for UBank Board position. January 2010 – July 2010 (7 months) + Promotion to Junior Technical Specialist in nabCERT Cybercrime & Investigations + Programming, documentation and server support + Phishing site takedowns + Automated malware analysis January 2009 – January 2010 (1 year 1 months) + Selected for the NAB Technology Graduate Program as a Graduate Software Engineer (120 students chosen from 3000 applicants) + Leadership role training new support team members and a summer intern + Resolved several Sev 1 Incidents + Web App Development (.NET, VB, C#, HTML, SQL & CSS) + Creation of Requirements Documents, Project Proposals and Specification Documents + Led a fun and creative initiative to reduce team incidents from over 120 to 0. This was achieved successfully. From January 2009 to July 2014 (5 years 7 months)

Masters of Computer Science @ RMIT UniversityBachelor of Computer Science & Bachelor of Education @ Queensland University of Technology From 2005 to 2008 Tammy Butow is skilled in: Web Development, Leadership, Management, Stakeholder Management, MySQL, Strategy, Cloud Computing, Linux, Software Development, Networking, SQL, Start-ups, Entrepreneurship, Awesome, Public Speaking