Stephen Thorne is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Google. He learned how to be a SRE on the team running Google's advertiser and publisher user interfaces.

Stephen went on to work on the challenge of Google App Engine as it grew rapidly and broke scaling barriers.

Before Google, Stephen fought against spam and viruses in his home country of Australia, where he also gained his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. Now he works to integrate Google's Cloud customer's operations with Google SRE and in his role in Customer Reliability Engineering.