Bob Sullivan
Staff Engineer II at VMware
Greater Cleveland United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBob Sullivan is a Staff Engineer II with over 10 years of experience leading distributed teams to build cloud-native observability products, currently guiding a group responsible for roughly $45M in ARR at VMware. He blends hands-on engineering in Java and Go with SRE practices, Kubernetes orchestration, and monitoring stacks like Prometheus and Grafana to deliver scalable, production-ready systems. Bob has a strong background in Cloud Foundry and Tanzu-era observability from roles at Pivotal and VMware, and he regularly defines technical strategy while mentoring and recruiting engineering talent. His early career implementing secure, high-volume financial systems at the Federal Reserve honed a pragmatic approach to reliability and compliance. Based in Greater Cleveland, he pairs formal computer engineering training from UIUC with a track record of modernizing CI/CD and developer workflows across large organizations. Colleagues describe him as a technical steward who balances product-level vision with hands-on pairing and code-level mentorship.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (99)
telegraf10
xpath10
monitoring10
diego10
golang10
json10
kafka10
agent10
time-series10
pcf10
modbus10
cloud-foundry9
chain9
mqtt9
grafana9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pivotal-cf/platform-monitoring
Feb 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:64 commits, 64 pushes in 1 year 3 months
robertjsullivan/spring-music
Dec 2022 - Apr 2024
A sample application for using database services on Cloud Foundry with Spring Framework.
Contributions:2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 4 months
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