Summary
Robert Horn is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in distributed systems, infrastructure automation, and platform engineering. He has progressed from hands-on application development and refactoring tools in academia to leading platform and DevSecOps initiatives at MITRE and managing engineering teams at LogRocket. At MITRE he designed CI/CD and configuration management for PaaS environments and mentored cross-functional teams, demonstrating both technical depth in Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, and Go and people leadership. Now at Grafana Labs he continues to focus on scalable infrastructure and developer tooling that improves collaboration across the software lifecycle. He combines a practical engineering mindset with an interest in how teams work, often building automation that makes complex deployments repeatable and auditable. Based in Brookline, NH, he brings a steady blend of operational experience and mentorship to platform-centric problems.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Software Engineering at Auburn University
German