Rob Files
Director HW Engineering Qualification And Validation
Puyallup, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Files is a hardware engineering leader with 20+ years of experience building and scaling qualification, validation, and system-level test programs across Intel, Amazon, AWS, and Microsoft. Currently Director of HW Engineering Qualification and Validation at Microsoft, he blends hands-on engineering and program leadership to drive reliability for cloud hardware and infrastructure. He has deep expertise in server qualification, test-fixture development, and memory/component reliability programs, and previously launched Reliability Demonstration Testing at AWS. A former owner of a performance electronics company, he brings an engineer’s curiosity and maker mindset to enterprise hardware challenges. His open-source contributions to Microsoft's RESTler project show a pragmatic backend focus on tooling, bug bucketing, and logging that complements his hardware-first career.
5 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at University of Washington
Github Skills (8)
api-rest10
fuzzing10
rest-api10
logging10
python10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
microsoft/restler-fuzzer
Oct 2020 - Dec 2020
RESTler is the first stateful REST API fuzzing tool for automatically testing cloud services through their REST APIs and finding security and reliability bugs in these services.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 32 commits, 45 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Rob primarily focused on improving the RESTler fuzzing tool's functionality. Their contributions include adding bug hashing, updating code reviews, and modifying the code related to bug bucketing and logging. They also implemented a feature to use the hostname for socket connections and updated the test setup. Furthermore, they made changes to the checkers, added examples to test, and handled custom bug and non-bug codes.
apicloud-servicestestingsecurityfinding
rifiles/restler-fuzzer
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
RESTler is the first stateful REST API fuzzing tool for automatically testing cloud services through their REST APIs and finding security and reliability bugs in these services.
Contributions:2 branches in 1 day
apicloud-servicestestingsecurityfinding
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