Summary
John Robe is a Principal Software Engineer with a decade of production experience building and scaling distributed systems for enterprise cloud and analytics products. He has driven architecture and delivery at Salesforce Tableau’s Storage and Search Services and previously led cross-team engineering for AWS S3, authoring extensive design papers and shipping the Additional Checksums feature used by millions. His strengths span Postgres scalability, connection pooling, RDS/S3/DynamoDB/OpenSearch management, and pragmatic operational excellence from on-call incident resolution to data migration leadership. A former Air Force computer engineer with a security clearance and an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, he blends disciplined systems engineering with a knack for turning one‑pager ideas into shipped, durable features.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah