Summary
Rob Bagby is a seasoned technology leader with 11+ years driving large-scale cloud and enterprise solutions, currently serving as CIO/CAO at MarketOnce after co-leading the Azure Architecture Center within Microsoft’s Patterns & Practices team. He blends hands-on engineering—helping Fortune 100 customers re-architect high-throughput financial systems, ETL pipelines, and supply-chain graphs on Azure—with a people-first leadership style grounded in inclusivity, DevOps, and engineering fundamentals. Known for pairing pragmatic architecture with developer enablement, he has led teams that delivered sub-hour processing for multi-terabyte ML pipelines and open-sourced tooling like Nutter to improve Databricks testing. A former Microsoft evangelist and consultant, he favors loosely coupled, componentized designs that make complex domains maintainable and auditable. Based in Phoenix, he brings product-focused technical strategy to startups and enterprises alike, informed by an MBA in International Finance and a long track record of training and mentoring engineers.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MBA International Finance, MBA International Finance at Thunderbird School of Global Management
BBA Business, BBA Business at William & Mary