Robert Meffan
Manager Release Engineering at InterSystems
United States
Summary
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RockstarRobert Meffan is a seasoned release engineering and DevOps leader with roughly two decades of hands-on experience building secure, scalable infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines across academia and industry. Currently Manager of Release Engineering at InterSystems, he has driven release and build automation at organizations such as the Broad Institute and Pearson, combining deep systems administration with release orchestration. He champions open source tooling and infrastructure-as-code—Terraform, Puppet, Ansible and Docker are staples of his toolset—while evangelizing SDLC practices that improve security, reliability, and consistency. His background spans cloud providers (GCP, AWS, SoftLayer), virtualization, and networking, and he pairs that with practical packaging and distribution expertise (RPM, apt, Homebrew). Notably, he blends security-first operations—YubiKey, Duo, LDAP, Kerberos—with observability and monitoring practices to deliver auditable production systems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer-manager who turns complex operational requirements into reproducible, automated workflows.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (74)
terra9
google-cloud8
google-cloud-platform7
terraform7
science7
bioinformatics7
post-build6
cloud-platform6
java6
data-structures6
terraform-provider6
application5
helm5
python5
whatsapp5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
broadinstitute/agora
Nov 2020 - Jul 2021
It's a methods repository!
Contributions:12 commits, 4 PRs, 30 pushes in 8 months
data-structuresjavapython
broadinstitute/github-action-kustomize-deploy
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
GitHub Action for deploying k8s resources with kustomize
Contributions:9 comments in 6 days
deployingk8s-resourcesk8skuberneteskustomize
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