Hey! I was at the USENIX Women in Advanced Computing 2012 Summit yesterday and will be blogging the talks from it. You can view more of my posts about this conference under the wiac12 category on this blog. Invited Talk: Overcoming My Biggest Roadblock, Myself Speaker: Sabrina Farmer, Site Reliabity Engineer, Google Inc. Sabrina started her talk by telling us that she has had a 17 year career in IT. She has been at google since 2005 and is now responsible for the of availability of Gmail worldwide. Her IT career started with her computer science degree, but she said, “I don’t think most people would guess what my journey was like.” She feels very passionate about advocating for women and inspiring women, which is the reason for her to decide to give the talk today. When Carolyn and Nicole first approached her about giving a talk at WiAC, she had no idea what to talk about. Nicole encouraged her to talk about her personal journey and successes rather than technical topics. “What is my success?” Sabrina asked herself. She went to three questions she’s used throughout her career to figure out what to do: What’s the problem? What’s the …