Stephen Gunn
Site Reliabilty Engineer, Google, Inc

Steve was the Site Reliability Engineering Lead for a large MySQL installation at Google from 2005-2008. Late in 2008, he volunteered at Obama For America helping with big-data analytics. Upon returning to Google, he’s been working with networks. Steve has more than 15 years experience as a UNIX and OpenSource generalist from Purdue University, Progeny Linux Systems, FedEx, and Google.

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3:50pm Thursday, 04/23/2009
Database We Can Believe In: Stories from the Front Lines (and Server Rooms) of Barack Obama's Online Presidential Campaign
Keynote
 Location: Ballroom E
Chuck Hagenbuch (Blue State Digital), Leigh Heyman (Blue State Digital), Stephen Gunn (Google, Inc), Mikey Dickerson (Google), Ian Gulliver (Google)
Barack Obama's presidential campaign created an unprecedented online grassroots movement in which supporters generated thousands of events, made millions of phone calls, raised record amounts of money, and received over a billion emails. Read more.

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