Rob Barker
Sr. Solution Architect at Glean
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Barker is a senior solution architect with 11+ years of focused experience designing and delivering enterprise storage and Microsoft ecosystem integrations, now shaping solutions at Glean. He led product and developer programs at Pure Storage—scaling the PowerShell SDK to cross-platform status and over 39,000 downloads, founding Pure’s open-source community, and influencing hundreds of millions in sales through reference architectures. His background spans deep Microsoft platform expertise from SharePoint and SQL Server to Azure integrations, backed by early engineering and evangelism roles at Microsoft and NetApp. Rob blends hands-on coding (Python, PowerShell, iOS/Xcode tooling) with product strategy, developer outreach, and technical leadership across cloud and on-prem architectures. He’s comfortable translating complex storage and automation requirements into SDKs, demos, and go-to-market content that drive adoption. Based in San Antonio, he pairs a scientific education with a long track record of turning platform capabilities into practical customer outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
UMBC
Github Skills (74)
powershell-module10
sdk10
purestorage10
recurly9
api9
powershell9
powershell-sdk9
powercli9
wordpress-plugin9
windows-server9
scenarios9
storage9
sql8
rest8
wordpress8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
PureStorage-OpenConnect/oracle-scripts
May 2016 - Jun 2021
Contributions:2 commits, 5 pushes in 5 years 2 months
PureStorage-OpenConnect/sqlserver-scripts
Oct 2017 - Jan 2019
Pure Storage SQL Server script repository.
Contributions:13 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
sqlserversql-servermicrosoft-sql-serversqlmicrosoft-sql
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