Rob Wilson
Head Of Infrastructure at INSHUR
Greater Brighton and Hove Area United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorRob Wilson is a seasoned infrastructure leader with 18 years of hands-on experience building and operating resilient systems across startups and scale-ups, now serving as Head of Infrastructure at INSHUR. He blends deep systems engineering and software development skills—rooted in early Solaris/BSD work—with practical DevOps leadership gained as Principal DevOps Engineer and technical lead roles. Rob contributes to open-source monitoring tooling (notably back-end work on the Sensu project), reflecting a focus on reliable telemetry, result processing, and scalable metric handling. Based in the Greater Brighton area, he excels at turning operational complexity into repeatable, testable processes and has a track record of improving engineering efficiency and observability in production environments.
18 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (8)
monitoring10
rspec10
redis10
ruby10
apidoc9
api9
data-handling9
system-design8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
sensu/sensu
Apr 2015 - Aug 2015
Monitoring for today's infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 13 PRs, 24 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Rob primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the Sensu monitoring system. Their work involved modifying server-side processes, specifically focusing on result data handling, check results, and metrics processing, including data truncation for metric checks. They also updated tests related to API processes, switching from `result_queue` to `result_template` and fixing tests related to result data. This includes modifications to database interactions via Redis and result processing.
devopsinfrastructuredockersensumonitoring
roobert/sensu
Jan 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:4 PRs, 68 pushes, 10 branches in 9 months
scalableaimsmonitoring-frameworkmetricsmonitoring
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