Summary
Bob Saska is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 13 years of experience building reliable, automated infrastructure and deployment pipelines for large-scale cloud platforms. He specializes in IaC, container orchestration, and Amazon EKS, and has a track record of improving data processing efficiency—most notably via a resolver-based storage and retrieval system at Nutrien Ag Solutions. Bob pairs hands-on platform ownership with pragmatic tooling, authoring quality-of-life utilities and integrating OpenTelemetry for smoke testing across Python and Go services. Now at First American, he brings deep operational experience from roles spanning system administration to test automation, and a practical focus on reducing errors and deployment time. Based in Illinois, he’s driven by continuous learning and applying engineering rigor to deliver sustainable, high-impact solutions.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Fine Arts, Computer Science Fine Arts at Parkland College
English