Rob Mcbroom
Senior Backend Engineer at LeafLink
Carmel, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolRob Mcbroom is a Senior Backend Engineer with 16 years of experience building and operating backend systems, currently shaping scalable services at LeafLink from Carmel, Indiana. He brings deep Python and DevOps skills honed across consulting and enterprise roles, routinely shipping Django and Flask apps, PostgreSQL-backed services, and automation for system fleets. His background as a Linux sysadmin and infrastructure engineer informs a pragmatic approach to reliability—he’s implemented Puppet, LDAP/Kerberos central auth, and monitoring at scale. An active open-source contributor to cloud-custodian, Rob has improved its CLI, AWS Lambda compatibility, and time-zone/cleanup robustness, showing a knack for production-ready fixes in widely used cloud governance tooling.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Information Systems at Indiana University Bloomington
Github Skills (11)
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testing8
devops8
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
cloud-custodian/cloud-custodian
Oct 2016 - Oct 2017
Rules engine for cloud security, cost optimization, and governance, DSL in yaml for policies to query, filter, and take actions on resources
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:19 commits, 27 PRs, 84 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Rob contributed to various aspects of the cloud-custodian project, demonstrating expertise in back-end development and DevOps. Their work included fixing bugs related to time zones and temporary file cleanup. Additionally, the user implemented new features and added tests for the command-line interface (CLI) tools, as well as refactoring reports and logs. The user also made adjustments to ensure compatibility with AWS Lambda and updated dependencies.
cloud-securitydslyamlawscompliance
skurfer/RenderMarkdown
Oct 2010 - Sep 2016
A set of files to support automatically displaying Markdown files as HTML on a web server
Contributions:60 commits, 3 PRs, 1 push in 6 years
markdownwebserver
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