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Speaker: Heather Nakama
Software Engineer @Microsoft - Azure Search
Heather Nakama is a Senior Software Engineer at Azure Search, a managed search-as-a-service offering from Microsoft's Azure cloud service platform. She works on the backend infrastructure that deploys, monitors, elastically scales, and automatically heals clusters hosting customer services. Heather has a passion for building distributed systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, and reliable.