Rob Boll
VP Of Engineering at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRob Boll is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience accelerating cloud-native infrastructure and software delivery lifecycles, currently serving as VP of Engineering at Datadog in New York. He rose through progressive leadership roles at Datadog—from software engineer to VP—shaping platform reliability, observability, and teams that prepare organizations for the AI era. Rob blends hands-on DevOps know-how (notably contributions to the helmfile project improving build, vendor management, and CLI versioning) with strategic delivery of large-scale infrastructure transformations. He is fluent in bridging developer experience, release engineering, and product priorities to drive measurable velocity and stability improvements. A Stony Brook CS graduate, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a bias for automation and consistent code hygiene that scales across orgs.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Stony Brook University
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Github Skills (12)
go10
helm10
charting9
kubernetes-pods9
charts9
kubernetes9
automations8
automation8
cicd8
command-line-interface6
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
roboll/helmfile
Nov 2016 - Mar 2018
Deploy Kubernetes Helm Charts
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:375 releases, 28 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Rob's contributions center around enhancing the project's build process and infrastructure. They added dependencies necessary for vendor management. Furthermore, the user implemented versioning within the application and made formatting changes to ensure consistent code style. These commits also indicate the user's focus on improving the command-line tool's functionality.
chartscharthelmhelm-charthelmfile
roboll/roboll.github.io
Jan 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:69 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 2 years 9 months
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