Curtis Robert
Software Engineer at Splunk
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCurtis Robert is a software engineer with 4 years of experience specializing in highly available distributed data storage and reliability engineering. He built proactive, minute-level alerting and became an SME in data-loss modeling at Dell, helping productize solutions that have a patent pending. At Splunk he focuses on hardening observability and deployments while contributing to the OpenTelemetry Collector—adding goleak checks to catch memory leaks and fixing test-suite and dependency issues. He also brings DevOps chops, having created a BOSH release to deploy collectors to Pivotal Cloud Foundry, combining backend, testing, and deployment expertise.
4 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science - AS, Computer Science, Associate of Science - AS, Computer Science at Clark CollegeBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Washington State University
Github Skills (17)
bosh10
dockerce10
docker10
cloud-foundry10
testing10
splunk10
configuration-management10
dockers10
go10
opentelemetry10
devops10
kubernetes9
ci-cd9
kubernetes-pod9
observability8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
signalfx/splunk-otel-collector
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:768 reviews, 15 commits, 378 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Curtis primarily contributed to the deployment and configuration aspects of the Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector, as evidenced by commits focused on Cloud Foundry Bosh releases. Their work included enabling the Cloud Foundry receiver and creating a Bosh release for deploying the collector to a Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) environment. They also updated dependencies and configuration files to enhance functionality, including supporting multiple configuration arguments.
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector
Apr 2022 - Mar 2025
OpenTelemetry Collector
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:92 reviews, 46 PRs, 115 comments in 3 years
Contributions summary:Curtis primarily focused on improving the project's test suite and ensuring code quality. Their contributions included enabling `goleak` checks across numerous packages to detect and prevent memory leaks. They addressed failing tests by adding `Shutdown` calls and ignoring leaks caused by dependencies. Additionally, they updated the project's dependencies and corrected `go.mod` and `go.sum` files after previous commits.
opentelemetry-collectortracingtempoobservabilitytelemetry
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