Summary
Grace Benz is an Engineering Manager with 11 years of experience leading frontend and observability efforts for Google Cloud databases, currently focusing on Manageability, Observability, and Gemini experiences across Cloud Databases consoles. She progressed from building BigQuery, Datastore, and Firestore frontends to tech-leading and managing Cloud Bigtable and Firestore teams, combining hands-on UI engineering with product-facing system reliability work. Based in New York, she balances people leadership with technical ownership, shipping polished console experiences at scale. Early roles as a CS tutor and multiple internships show a long-standing commitment to mentoring and pragmatic problem solving beyond just shipping code.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science at Middlebury College