Robb Kistler
Senior Software Engineer at Mirantis
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobb Kistler is a senior software and systems engineer in San Francisco with over two decades of hands-on experience spanning embedded systems, distributed back-ends, mobile platforms, and security-focused tooling. He currently leads architecture and development for Docker Trusted Registry at Mirantis, routinely shipping Go-based, highly available services while also owning dev-ops responsibilities on AWS. His background includes low-level work on ELF, Java bytecode and LLVM bitcode, cross-compiling toolchains, and anti-tamper/anti-piracy systems, giving him a rare full-stack understanding from hardware to cloud. Robb is a pragmatic generalist who pairs rapid depth acquisition with a taste for tooling—his favorite language is Go—and he’s built complex Jenkins CI/CD pipelines across cross-platform environments. He has contributed QA/test automation improvements to the well-known s3fs-fuse project, strengthening S3-backed filesystem integration tests. Equally comfortable writing production code or guiding teams with Scrum, he combines technical leadership with a persistent curiosity for platform internals.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at Michigan Technological UniversityPost grad, Computer Engineering, Post grad, Computer Engineering at Syracuse University
Github Skills (9)
aws-s310
testing10
bash10
amazon-s310
integration-testing10
s3-bucket10
fuse9
filesystem8
cloud-storage8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse
Jul 2015 - Mar 2016
FUSE-based file system backed by Amazon S3
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:17 commits, 18 PRs, 49 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Robb focused on enhancing the integration tests for the s3fs-fuse repository. Their contributions include adding tests for file truncation and writing after seeking past the end of file, which improved the robustness of the testing suite. Additionally, the user refactored existing tests to address potential object consistency issues and fixed bugs within the test logic, ensuring greater test coverage. The user also implemented changes to improve test infrastructure like correcting the S3 proxy wait loop and ensuring the tests can run against Amazon S3.
fusevfsfile-basedamazonamazon-s3
RobbKistler/curry-bubble
Sep 2015 - Oct 2018
Quick and tasty experiments
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 1 month
tasty
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