Donnie Roberson
Head Of Engineering - Production Engineering at DataStax
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
Summary
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SeniorDonnie Roberson is a seasoned production engineering leader with over two decades in IT and nearly a decade leading cloud, SRE, and database production teams at DataStax. He builds and scales high-performing support and operations organizations, growing teams, formalizing training, and driving cross-functional communications between customers, support, and engineering. Known for deep-dive troubleshooting, incident de-escalation, and meticulous post-mortems, he turns critical escalations into repeatable processes and knowledge-base assets. His background ranges from hands-on filesystem and kernel crash analysis at Dell EMC to running East Coast support operations at Hortonworks and founding his own IT services firm. Based in the Raleigh-Durham area, he combines customer-facing empathy with technical rigor and a knack for mentoring engineers into leadership-ready contributors. An unstated strength: he consistently translates one-off escalations into organizational improvements that reduce future toil.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
English
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Github Skills (18)
docker-image10
datastax10
grafana-dashboard10
docker9
dse9
cassandra8
monitoring7
collector7
prometheus6
vagrantfile6
prometheus-exporter6
vms5
virtualbox5
provisioning5
grafana5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
roberd13/dsedocker
Oct 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:87 commits, 86 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
datastax/docker-images
Nov 2017 - Apr 2020
Docker images published by DataStax.
Contributions:85 commits, 27 PRs, 70 pushes in 2 years 5 months
docker-imagedockerdatastaxdocker-imagespublished
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