Greg Cobb
R&D Engineer Software 5 at Broadcom
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGreg Cobb is a seasoned R&D software engineer with 13 years of experience building and leading cloud-native and distributed systems teams, currently at Broadcom after a principal engineering tenure at VMware. He has driven APIs and CLI work for VMware Tanzu and led the Cloud Foundry API effort, blending hands-on backend development with technical leadership across multi-vendor open source teams. An active Open Source contributor, Greg has improved core Cloud Foundry tooling (including the widely used CF CLI and acceptance tests) and maintained tests for the Jasmine JS framework, demonstrating deep expertise in reliability, testing, and developer tooling. He combines product-facing design work with pragmatic refactors and CI fixes, and has experience across DevOps, documentation, and technical writing for platform users. Based in San Francisco with a BS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech, Greg also brings early startup and founder experience building a Backbone.js web app and shipping features at scale. Colleagues rely on him for troubleshooting complex distributed behavior and turning stability problems into maintainable solutions.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyCenter for Advanced Studies at Wheeler High SchoolUPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
English, French, Bengali
Github Skills (22)
json10
javascript10
cloud-foundry10
apidoc10
testing10
http10
tasks10
api10
go10
tdd10
service-broker10
automated-tests10
jasmine10
documentation10
test-automation10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/cli
May 2015 - Nov 2018
The official command line client for Cloud Foundry
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:71 commits, 9 PRs, 63 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Greg focused on enhancing the Cloud Foundry command-line interface (CLI), specifically the `create-service-key` command. Their contributions included adding the ability to pass arbitrary parameters as either a JSON string or a JSON file when creating service keys, and improving the error messaging for invalid JSON input. Additionally, the user updated the service keys repository and models to facilitate this new functionality, which included adding a parameter field. They also refactored and improved existing test cases related to service key creation.
foundrycf-clicloud-foundrycloud-foundry-clicli
cloudfoundry/cf-acceptance-tests
Apr 2015 - Jun 2022
CF Acceptance tests
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 39 commits, 7 PRs in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Greg primarily focused on enhancing the Cloud Foundry acceptance tests. Their contributions included refactoring service-related tests by moving global variables into their own file, thus improving code organization. Furthermore, the user added tests for service keys, bindings, and private service brokers. They also updated the tasks and routing tests. In addition, the user implemented features to log request headers within the CATS broker and updated tests related to the HTTP/2-only routing.
testingacceptance-testscff-wg-app-runtime-deploymentsacceptance
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