Bob Strecansky
Staff Engineer at Intuit
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolBob Strecansky is a Staff Engineer based in Atlanta with 11 years building resilient, high-performance web systems across SRE, performance engineering, and solutions architecture. He’s worked at Intuit and Mailchimp driving app performance and reliability, and previously helped enterprise e-commerce customers scale and secure traffic at Akamai. A pragmatic backend and test automation engineer, Bob contributes to notable open-source projects including Certbot (improving ACME client error handling) and OpenTelemetry PHP (adding tracing/sampling features), showing a focus on observability and robust error visibility. He combines hands-on debugging and test improvements with architectural thinking, often surfacing subtle error conditions that improve production reliability. Notably, his background spans both low-level networking research and large-scale customer integrations, giving him an uncommon blend of systems-level and customer-facing engineering experience.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering at Clemson UniversityHilton Head PrepSaucon Valley High School
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Github Skills (24)
unit-testing10
tracer10
python10
testing10
acme10
opentelemetry-go10
php10
http-request10
opentelemetry10
error-handling10
trace10
cicd9
letsencrypt8
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-php
Sep 2019 - Sep 2022
The OpenTelemetry PHP Library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 517 reviews, 49 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Bob contributed to the OpenTelemetry PHP library by adding functionality related to tracing and instrumentation. Their work included adding support for samplers, setting up examples and tests demonstrating various tracing configurations. The user also made updates to the core tracing components, including Span and Tracer classes, implementing features like timestamps and span linking. Furthermore, they focused on improving code quality by fixing PHP coding standards.
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certbot/certbot
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Certbot is EFF's tool to obtain certs from Let's Encrypt and (optionally) auto-enable HTTPS on your server. It can also act as a client for any other CA that uses the ACME protocol.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:12 commits, 7 PRs, 58 comments in 14 days
Contributions summary:Bob's contributions primarily focused on debugging and refining error handling within the `acme` client library, specifically related to unwrapping max retries exceeded errors. They addressed issues within the `acme/acme/client.py` and `acme/acme/client_test.py` files. Furthermore, the user contributed by improving error messages in tests and ensuring better error visibility. Additionally, a change was made to help with supporting Fedora 26 package installation.
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