Rob Genova
Chief Operating Officer
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Genova is a seasoned solutions architect and product leader with over a decade of experience building and commercializing cloud-native infrastructure, NoSQL databases, and managed services. He has held senior roles at HashiCorp—driving Nomad and Consul product strategy and marketing—and led pre-sales and field engineering for database platforms like Cloudant, FoundationDB, and Riak. Comfortable in both technical and go-to-market roles, Rob blends hands-on DevOps skills (Terraform, shell scripting, multi-cloud provisioning) with the ability to close strategic deals and advise startups through DataTribe. His open-source contributions to HashiCorp projects demonstrate real-world infrastructure engineering experience across AWS and Azure, including cross-cloud refactors and integrations with Consul and Vault. Based in Petaluma, he pairs enterprise sales acumen with deep systems knowledge and a track record of driving critical engagements to successful close with minimal oversight.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Environmental Management, Master of Science Environmental Management at University of San FranciscoBachelor of Science Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering at University of Connecticut
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Github Skills (22)
scripting10
microsoft-azure10
nomad10
terraform10
ubuntu10
terraformer10
consul10
script10
packer10
aws10
vault10
sh10
infrastructure-as-code10
azure10
shell10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/nomad
May 2017 - Jun 2019
Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Infrastructure Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Infrastructure EngineerContributions:149 commits, 55 PRs, 66 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Rob focused on provisioning and configuring infrastructure for the Nomad project, primarily using shell scripting and Terraform. Their contributions included setting up build and provisioning scripts for AWS and Azure, incorporating support for DNS integration and HDFS, and updating configurations to support new versions of Consul, Vault, and Nomad. Furthermore, they refactored build and runtime config scripts to accommodate multiple cloud environments.
consulmicroservicesvault
hashicorp/best-practices
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:27 commits, 6 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Rob contributed to infrastructure and configuration management within the repository. Their work includes setting up and configuring Consul, Consul Template, Vault, and HAProxy. They implemented Upstart configurations for these services and made adjustments to Packer scripts for image building. Furthermore, the user addressed inconsistencies in the scripts across various components and supported the integration of Node.js applications.
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