Robert Cauble
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Cauble is a senior staff software engineer with deep expertise in high-scale distributed systems, low-latency caching, and cross-language production services. He built CliqueMap at Google—a large RDMA-backed read/write cache adopted across YouTube, Ads, Geo, Search, and Cloud—demonstrating an ability to turn research ideas into production systems with features like hitless updates, dynamic resizing, and SSD integration. His career spans dataflow engines, distributed SQL and data-mining libraries, profilers/debuggers, and object-relational tooling, reflecting a rare full-stack infrastructure pedigree from hardware-adjacent RDMA work to client libraries in multiple languages. Comfortable in small, fast-paced teams, he has repeatedly shipped large codebases (contributing over a million lines of delta code) and optimized performance at the system level. Based in Madison, WI, Robert mixes pragmatic engineering with algorithmic thinking—evident from scalable decision-tree and streaming-executor work—to tackle new technical challenges across AI and cloud infrastructure.
3 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at University of Notre Dame
Github Skills (25)
oltp10
delta-lake10
scenarios10
starrocks10
big-data10
data-analytics10
analytics10
star-schema10
olap10
mpp10
ad-hoc10
sql10
realtime-database10
distributed-database10
cbo10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rcauble/rcauble-subtree-child
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:9 pushes, 6 tags in 1 day
rcauble/starrocks
Jul 2023 - Jul 2023
StarRocks is a next-gen sub-second MPP database for full analytics scenarios, including multi-dimensional analytics, real-time analytics and ad-hoc query.
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 day
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