Rob Brucks
Software Engineer at H-E-B
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Brucks is a seasoned software engineer and former DBA with over two decades of experience building and operating mission-critical, scalable, and secure systems across mainframe, Unix, and cloud platforms. Currently at H-E-B, he blends deep database expertise (DB2, IMS, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL) with modern SRE practices gained at Rackspace, including automation with Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform, and container platforms like OKD. He has repeatedly bridged legacy enterprise systems and cloud-native tooling, enabling reliable operations in highly complex environments. Based in San Antonio, Rob is passionate about learning and teaching new technologies, and his career shift from traditional DBA roles to site reliability engineering highlights a rare combination of institutional knowledge and modern DevOps craftsmanship.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at UTSABS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Texas State University-San Marcos
English
Github Skills (31)
container-management10
container10
docker10
harbor10
cosign9
kubernetes9
helm9
container-registry9
cloud-native9
python8
ansible8
javascript7
newrelic7
automation7
zabbix7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
robbrucks/openssl-how-to
Nov 2019 - Aug 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
robbrucks/dotfiles
Feb 2018 - Apr 2020
Dotfiles for various OSs
Contributions:6 PRs, 26 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 3 months
vimosstmuxlinuxbash
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