Florentina Popovici currently works at Google, where she focuses on distributed storage. She received her doctorate from the Computer Sciences Department at University of Wisconsin-Madison under the direction of Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau and Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau. One of her fond memories from those times is setting a Datamation world sort record, which will never be claimed by anybody else. She is a two-time winner of the IBM PhD fellowship award. She enjoys the analysis, design, and implementation of large scale distributed storage systems. At Google she worked on the Google File System, and currently she analyzes and helps design the storage system for availability and performance.