Robert Houghton
Staff Software Engineer at Pivotal
Tualatin, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Houghton is a Staff Software Engineer based in Tualatin, Oregon with 10 years of professional experience and a longer engineering background dating to the mid-2000s. He focuses on infrastructure, DevOps, and automation, currently driving platform reliability and CI/CD improvements at Pivotal. His open-source work on Apache Geode demonstrates practical impact—building PR pipelines, mass-test automation, and GCP resource optimizations that streamline builds and releases for a widely used distributed data project. Prior roles at Mentor Graphics and an early internship at Radisys reflect deep systems and embedded-software chops alongside cloud-native tooling. Collected from a Computer Engineering degree at Oregon State, his skill set blends hands-on scripting, pipeline design, and pragmatic engineering leadership. Peers describe him as the kind of engineer who quietly removes recurring friction so teams can ship faster.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering at Oregon State UniversityGrants Pass High School
Github Skills (18)
concourse10
gcp10
ci-cd-pipeline10
devops10
scripting9
bash9
automation9
automations9
shell9
script9
sh9
google-compute-engine8
docker8
dockers8
automation-testing7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
apache/geode
Dec 2017 - Jun 2022
Apache Geode
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 238 commits, 1 comment in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Robert's commits primarily focused on automating and improving the CI/CD pipeline for the Apache Geode project. They implemented new pipelines for pull requests and mass test runs, integrated GitHub PRs, and refactored existing deployment scripts. The user also made enhancements to the image building process and resource management within the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including the creation of heavy-lifter instances. The contributions streamlined the build and release process and improved the overall developer experience.
accumuloapachenetwork-serverdatagridjava
IronOnet/geode
Jul 2019 - May 2020
Apache Geode
Contributions:6 commits in 9 months
wfsapachejavageotoolsgeode
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