Robb Wagoner is a Senior Engineering Manager in Seattle with 12 years of experience building and operating cloud-native platforms, data pipelines, and high-performance relational databases. He combines hands-on expertise in AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Airflow and MySQL with a proven track record of reducing cost and operational toil through automation and CI/CD. At Doximity he progressed from senior engineer to senior manager, leading platform and infrastructure teams while keeping a practitioner’s focus on reliability and observability. His consulting work drove measurable wins—90% fewer MySQL deadlocks, multi-region read scaling to 64 Aurora readers, and six-figure annual AWS savings at a prior employer. An active contributor to the Ansible ecosystem, he’s enhanced cloud resource visibility for ELBs and CloudFormation integrations, reflecting a commitment to improving tooling that others rely on. He’s known for translating complex systems into auditable, repeatable processes that accelerate delivery and simplify operations.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science, Software Engineering, Bachelors of Science, Software Engineering at Southern Oregon University
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Cloud Engineer
Contributions:6 commits, 2 comments, 1 issue in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Robb contributed to the Ansible project by modifying modules related to cloud infrastructure management, particularly for AWS services. Their commits involved adding functionality to retrieve health information and instance counts for Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs). They also worked on including resources from CloudFormation stacks in the results and refining the presentation of ELB statistics. These changes suggest a focus on enhancing the information and functionality related to cloud resource management within the Ansible ecosystem.
Contributions:13 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 3 months
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Robb Wagoner - Senior Engineering Manager at Doximity