Your assumption is incorrect. I haven't been in touch with anyone in Google, and used 0 internal connections. Happy to make another post with my conversation + documentation to support this.
I reached out to the GCP through their regular channels. This is not a paid post, and we are not sponsored by Google in anyway.
> Having been a Googler for ~6.5 years and written dozens of project documents, incident reports, and what not, I knew how to put the case for Google team when they would come back to work in 2 days.
That certainly reads as an advantage that most non-Googlers would not have.
I'll share the doc I prepared and sent to Google in my consult, in one of the next posts.
Perhaps OP can edit the bottom to make it more clear?