Summary
Maggie Cai is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Google with 11 years of software and controls engineering experience, blending production reliability, distributed systems, and developer productivity. She began her career building controls software and serving as a developer/scrum master at Dematic, then progressed through multiple software engineering roles at Google into SRE leadership. Maggie holds a first-class honours degree in Mechatronics Engineering, advanced mathematics and computational science from the University of Sydney, bringing strong analytical rigor and a foundation in robotics and automation to software problems. A fast learner and collaborative problem-solver, she excels at turning complex systems into reliable, maintainable services and mentoring teams through technical transitions. Notably, her background bridges hardware-aware controls engineering and large-scale cloud service reliability—an uncommon combo that informs pragmatic, data-driven operational decisions.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Sydney
High school Mathematics, High school Mathematics at St. Scholasticas College