Arille is a solutions consultant at Google, focusing on Google Play business operations. She has 7+ years of operations experience at the company, and has previously worked in both Cloud (enterprise) and consumer-facing teams. She was born and raised in San Jose, and studied Bioengineering at Santa Clara University. She had an undergraduate marketing internship at eSilicon Corporation, which unintentionally was the catalyst for shifting her career interests to the world of business. Since high school, Arille has been a strong advocate for programs encouraging women and minorities to explore STEM fields, and she’s actively involved in volunteering through one of Google’s employee resource groups, the Filipino Googler Network. Outside of work, you can catch her cooking new recipes, spending time with family and husband Brent, and playing with her Shih Tzu, Yana.
“‘Why are you here? There’s a cheerleading camp next door.’
It’s been twelve years since my classmate made this comment to me, after I’d shared with him I was struggling to understand a coding concept. As one of the handful of girls at the high school robotics camp, this casual remark made by one of my “friends” took me by surprise. It shook my confidence. Was it a mistake thinking I could actually do this? Will I ever measure to compete? Maybe he felt I’d brush off his remark as a joke. Little did he (and I) know, after slowly picking myself back up with the encouraging words of my parents, that crude remark helped shift my ambitions into overdrive. Frankly, I’m quite stubborn, and I wanted nothing else than to prove him and any other naysayers wrong. When the school year started again, my best friend and I pioneered an all-girl robotics team at our school to show that #girlsrock, not really knowing the challenges that lay ahead. For the next few years, we actively sought mentoring parents, teachers and local company sponsors (including Google!) to donate their time and expertise. It took a village, but our team learned how to build and wire together robots that were over 5 ft tall and 120+ lbs for the FIRST Robotics Competition!”
