Breakthrough Sponsorship: How to Be the Sponsor You've Always Wanted by Belinda Runkle

Belinda leads Google Cloud's monetization infrastructure, a collection of massive telemetry systems as well customer product experiences for enabling customers to manage their cloud costs. Belinda is a seasoned product engineering leader who brings enterprise cloud experience to Google after having served as a VP of Engineering at New Relic where she led their flagship cloud monitoring and observability product line. Prior to joining Google, Belinda served as a VP of Engineering at Fastly where she was responsible for the control plane for Fastly's CDN and edge compute offerings.

Belinda's passion for building awe-inspiring and useful products for developers highlights the past decade of her career. She has been an unsinkable advocate for diversity and inclusion at work. As a non-traditional tech careerist, Belinda's college work was in studio art and anthropology, and she continues to bring insights from both areas to the craft of software engineering and product design. Belinda lives in Seattle with her partner and two dogs.