Heidi Jacobs is an accomplished software engineer with a strong foundation in computer science, holding a Bachelor of Science from Stanford University and a Master of Science from Columbia University. Beginning a career at Verizon as an Operations Manager, Heidi transitioned to roles as a Software Development Engineer at Citi and Alibaba Group, where expertise in back-end Java microservices and cloud-native applications was developed. Currently, Heidi serves as a Software Engineer at Google, contributing to the significant deep learning project known as "Google Brain" since June 2018.