Rob Fugina
Systems Engineer at Washington University in St. Louis
Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolRob Fugina is a seasoned Systems Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building and running Linux, Unix, and networking infrastructure for research and enterprise environments. He cut his teeth on early Unix hardware and Linux betas—helping get support for new processors—bringing a deep, practical understanding of systems programming, Perl, C, PL/SQL, and IPv6 networking. His career spans roles from student programmer at USGS to IT director and server operations lead, where he introduced Agile practices, CI builds, and centralized version control across development teams. At Washington University and the McDonnell Genome Institute he focuses on reliable, secure operations for scientific computing while mentoring cross-functional teams. Self-taught in Oracle and many other technologies, he emphasizes knowing where to find expertise and leveraging available resources to solve novel problems. Based in Missouri, he maintains archived code repositories moved to GitLab, reflecting a history of practical tooling and reproducible operations.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at Missouri University of Science and TechnologyDiploma, Diploma at Fox High SchoolGraduate Certificate, Project Management, Graduate Certificate, Project Management at Washington University in St. Louis
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Github Skills (28)
python9
puppet9
command-line9
raspberry-pi9
home-automation8
iot8
mqtt8
asyncio7
internet-of-things7
oracle6
fileio6
database6
fork6
race-condition6
project-management6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
fugina-hackery/perl-gednav
Feb 2014 - Jan 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
ryanycoleman/puppet-module-dropbox
Jul 2017 - Oct 2023
A simple Puppet module for installing the Dropbox client.
Contributions:4 PRs in 6 years 4 months
dropboxpuppet
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