Summary
Robert Fehrmann is a seasoned technical leader with over a decade of experience designing and delivering highly scalable cloud-native data platforms, currently serving as Technical Director for SnowCAT at Snowflake. He blends deep hands-on expertise across AWS, Snowflake, Hadoop, MongoDB and columnar systems like Vertica and Redshift with director-level delivery of multi-million dollar migrations and 100% cloud transformations. Robert has led cross-functional and geographically distributed teams to migrate hundreds of VMs and tens of terabytes of data into fully automated, DevOps-driven AWS environments, freeing engineers to focus on product rather than infrastructure. He champions pragmatic architectures—favoring Dual Track Scrum and AKF scalability patterns—and has been an active voice on the Snowflake customer council after driving Snowflake adoption at Snagajob. His background spans enterprise and startup domains from shop-floor automation to web-scale OLTP and analytics, and he holds a cum laude Master’s in Computer Science, plus specialized MongoDB and Big Data certificates. An uncommon strength is his track record of replacing legacy operational stacks (bare-metal load balancers, Splunk, etc.) with cloud PaaS and automated scaling while keeping costs, timelines, and quality tightly controlled.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer Science, cum laude, Masters, Computer Science, cum laude at Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig
Certificate, BigData, Certificate, Certificate, BigData, Certificate at Cousera
Certificate, MongoDB, Certificate, Certificate, MongoDB, Certificate at 10Gen
Mini MBA, MBA, Mini MBA, MBA at University of Richmond - Robins School of Business
English, German