Robb Manes
Senior Principal Software Maintenance Engineer - Containerization And Orchestration
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolRobb Manes is a Senior Principal Software Maintenance Engineer with 11+ years of hands-on experience architecting, debugging, and hardening containerization and orchestration platforms at scale. Based in Raleigh, NC, he specializes in Golang, Rust, Python and C while routinely diving into Kubernetes, CRI-O, Podman, Docker, OpenShift, and cloud providers (AWS/GCP/Azure) to resolve the highest-severity production incidents. His background in Linux kernel networking, Open vSwitch, HAProxy and SDN gives him unique visibility into cross-layer problems from kernel traces to container runtimes, and he’s comfortable using and extending tools like gdb/kgdb, Delve, perf, ftrace and custom reproducers. A consistent open-source contributor, Robb improved the sosreport networking plugin to better collect namespace, nftables and OpenVSwitch data for debuggability in containerized environments. He also has a track record of coaching engineers, designing CI/CD and deployment architectures, and leading cross-product debugging teams to deliver pragmatic long-term fixes. Colleagues know him for combining deep systems-level expertise with a pragmatic, people-first approach to solving hairy production issues.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Computer Science Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's of Computer Science Computer Software Engineering at Southern New Hampshire University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
system-administration10
linux10
python10
networking10
devops9
container8
docker8
containerization8
security7
kubernetes-helm6
jenkins6
kubernetes6
go6
docker-registry6
postgresql6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
sosreport/sos
Sep 2015 - Apr 2020
A unified tool for collecting system logs and other debug information
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 15 PRs, 42 comments in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Robb primarily contributed to the `networking` plugin within the `sosreport/sos` repository, enhancing its functionality. Their work included gathering network namespace data, integrating nftables rules and files, and refining the collection of OpenVSwitch flow commands. The user also focused on improving the software's stability, including the implementation of new policies and refactoring for container environments.
loggingcollectingdebugsystem-logslogs
robbmanes/seeding-reward-bot
Apr 2023 - Jan 2025
Seeding reward bot for Glow's Battlegrounds Community
Contributions:8 reviews, 31 PRs, 52 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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