How Google Uses Bathroom Breaks to Improve Developer Knowledge and Productivity

Meet the Speakers

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  Andrew Trenk

  Andrew has been a software engineer at Google since 2008, mainly on Google Search and Ads.

  Andrew is involved in various efforts at Google to spread knowledge about software engineering best practices. He leads Tech on the Toilet, a weekly one-page newsletter about coding tips that is posted in Google bathrooms worldwide. He also contributes to Google’s unit testing best practices documentation, and is the author of a chapter about unit testing in the Software Engineering at Google book.

  
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  Kanu Tewary

  Kanu is a technical program manager at Google, with extensive experience in tools and infrastructure. Kanu’s most recent role is in the Office of Cross-Google Engineering, driving the evolution of Google’s infrastructure to best serve the needs of its internal developer community. Kanu volunteers for Tech on the Toilet, a community effort to spread engineering knowledge throughout Google by placing one-page articles in restrooms. Prior to Google, Kanu has had several years of experience as a compiler toolchain engineer at Cisco, and Sun Microsystems. She has taught various university courses, including software engineering for the Cybersecurity Cohort program at San Jose State University. Kanu enjoys mentoring students and early-in-career technologists, and has done so through several organizations including Technovation Challenge, Built By Girls WAVE, and the Grace Hopper Conference.