Robert Roland
Principal Software Engineer at Smartsheet
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarRobert Roland is a Principal Software Engineer based in Seattle with over two decades of hands-on experience and 14 years in senior engineering roles building data-rich, cloud-native systems. He specializes in designing scalable, highly available platforms—ranging from on-premises GraphQL APIs and HBase/Hadoop data stacks to Kubernetes-driven control planes and Terraform-powered multi-cloud workflows. At Smartsheet and prior roles at Puppet, Metabase, HPE and Simply Measured he has led technical teams, migrated large datastores, and authored tooling that bridges infrastructure-as-code with application-level services. Comfortable across JVM and functional-language ecosystems, he pairs deep systems engineering with product-minded delivery and mentorship. Notably, he has a track record of rapid, high-impact platform work such as porting large Cloud Foundry workloads to containers in weeks and integrating Hive with HBase via an open serialization library. He brings a blend of software craftsmanship, data focus, and pragmatic leadership to complex engineering problems.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
yum10
scheduling10
mesos10
puppet10
winrm10
visualization10
kubernetes-monitoring10
coredns10
terraform10
bolt10
kubernetes10
mysql10
graph10
slack10
network10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
robdaemon/puppetdb
Oct 2018 - Feb 2020
Centralized Puppet Storage
Contributions:260 pushes, 83 branches in 1 year 4 months
centralizedstoragepuppet
hpcloud/kubernetes
Nov 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:1 release, 9 PRs, 59 pushes in 1 year 3 months
gcpcontainer-clusterdockerkubernetescluster-manager
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