Astrid Atkinson

Astrid Atkinson is CEO and co-founder of Camus Energy, which provides software-based Grid Management as a Service, combining real-time situational awareness, device control, and market integration for grid operators and energy providers. Prior to founding Camus, she was a Senior Director of Software Engineering at Google, where she was an early leader in distributed systems reliability. As lead for reliability engineering for Google.com, she led the development of Google’s global web serving platform, and as head of Frameworks Engineering, she led the development of a common, performant, scalable set of infrastructure frameworks, which now power all of Google’s major product lines. She speaks globally as an expert on large scale distributed systems architecture, reliability engineering, and organizational leadership.