Neha Narula is a PhD candidate at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligance Lab at MIT building fast, scalable distributed systems and databases. In a previous life she helped launch a new version of Digg and was a Senior Software Engineer at Google, where she designed the first version of Blobstore, a system for storing and serving petabytes of immutable data, and worked on Native Client, a system for running native code securely through the browser. She cares a lot about coffee, wine, and building systems with strong consistency and performance.