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. Tammy previously led SRE teams at Dropbox responsible for Databases and Storage systems used by over 500 million customers. Tammy was also an IMOC (Incident Manager On-Call) at Dropbox where she was responsible for managing and resolving high severity incidents across all of Dropbox. Previously, Tammy worked in infrastructure engineering, security engineering, and product engineering. Tammy is an Australian and enjoys skateboarding, snowboarding, mosh pits, crowd surfing, metal and hardcore punk.
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