So Sleuth up-levels them by bringing in quantitative and qualitative data, letting people add context and using AI to summarize data and pick out outliers. Check out sleuth.io for more information. Hey, Stephanie, welcome and thank you so much for being here with us today.

Thank you for having me. I'm excited we got to make this happen.

Yeah, excited too. So, Stephanie, you are head of technical marketing in Google Cloud. So you create storytelling around technology to inspire developers, enable customer growth. And you have won a lot of awards for that. You accomplished a keynote speaker, you have also podcast yourself, and you've also been lead product manager for Gemini, spearheading LLM products in Google. So I don't even know where to start because you have done so many things already. But to break the ice, I think we may start with your journey in tech. So how did you even get into technical marketing, the cloud, and generative AI, and all these things? Well,

I always tell people that I don't have a traditional background in technology. I have a CS degree, but not a computer science degree. I actually have a communication studies degree. So as you can see, it wasn't the typical foundation to go into a technical role, particularly at Google. So when I was going out of university, I thought I wanted to go into entertainment and media. And that's what the communication studies program is known for. But I also had an interest in technology. So I minored in digital humanities, which attempted to modernize the practice of humanities by infusing it with data analytics, programming, information systems, and things of that nature. It wasn't until I started applying to jobs all across media, ads, technology, and ended up landing a role as a sales engineer at Oracle, which is another, of course, large technology enterprise company. And when I started working as a sales engineer there, I enjoyed it because it combined sort of this left side, right side brain thinking of doing technical skills, but also business at the same time. So that's sort of how I gained my foundation and learned about enterprise B2B, SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS technology. I eventually pivoted over to Google because they were recruiting to help really boost up their cloud area at the time. And I had also pivoted towards cloud, noticing that the field back at that time was really growing. So I strategically positioned myself towards cloud and learned more hands-on skills there. And so I joined Google after, you know, several different interview cycles and, you know, was fascinated by the culture. Folks at Google, of course, are very successful, you know, brilliant people everywhere. And I had met somebody on the floor that first month that I was working there who was like, hey, I want to do some videos. You want to jump in and help? It's not anything fancy. We're just going to carry a camera around and interview people or do demos of our products. I decided to take that up because I had always had an interest in media, as you know. Yeah, of course. But did it for fun. We posted it on our own YouTube channel and we just kept doing that. And over time, somebody at the company in engineering said, hey, what you're doing is valuable. We need more people who know how to communicate to engineers and create technical videos that are fun and engaging to watch. So we ended up doing that for the official Google Cloud YouTube channel, teaching people about how to use our products, everything from database as a service to cloud computing and, you know, a typical VM infrastructure in the cloud. Yeah. And started engaging people that way. And one thing led to another. And I ended up doing that full time, actually pivoting to DevRel or developer relations for over five years at Google. so, you know, we had a lot of pivots since then, but that was probably the big chunk of my career is learning how to storytell at scale in developer relations. It's

an awesome story.