Robert Labrie is a seasoned cloud and observability leader with 12+ years building and operating large-scale web services, currently managing a distributed team of 12 engineers for Webex observability across the US and Asia. He combines hands-on cloud engineering—running 400+ node Elasticsearch clusters and Kafka integrations—with product stewardship, owning roadmap, backlog and budget for observability-as-a-service supporting 1000+ developers. Known for driving DevOps adoption and operational excellence, he blends systems-level depth (networking, databases, Windows/.NET ops) with strong people leadership and transformational change across trans-national teams. His career spans startups to Fortune 500s, giving him rare empathy for both rapid delivery and enterprise-grade reliability. An often-overlooked strength is his shipboard and field operations background, which sharpened his troubleshooting under pressure and pragmatic automation focus.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering Technology, Computer Engineering Technology at Niagara College
Contributions:41 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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Robert Labrie - Manager For Observability, Webex at Cisco