Robert Sanders
VP, Site Reliability Engineer at Goldman Sachs
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Sanders is a seasoned technology executive and hands-on Site Reliability leader with 17 years of experience building resilient, scalable systems across networking, telecom, social media, payments, gaming, and cybersecurity. Currently VP of Site Reliability Engineering at Goldman Sachs, he has repeatedly scaled early-stage platforms into production-ready SaaS, led rapid MVP launches, and cut operating costs through automation and elastic cloud models. As CTO and SVP at startups like Verusen and Cybraics he drove architecture, CI/CD, Kubernetes adoption, and SOC 2-ready processes while reducing ops staffing needs by embracing SRE principles. Robert excels at creating durable company foundations—values, team culture, processes, and IP—that enable continuous improvement beyond any single product. He pairs executive strategy with deep technical craft, from streaming analytics design to telemetry-driven reliability engineering. Based in Atlanta, he brings a blend of entrepreneurial grit and enterprise rigor shaped by a career that moves fluidly between invention and operational excellence.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Philosophy, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Philosophy at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (66)
kubernetes10
go10
docker10
bare-metal9
charts9
kubernetes-cluster9
developer-tools9
bgp9
scheduling9
keepalived9
arp9
helmfile9
protocols9
network-load-balancer8
helm8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rsanders/nibwarelib
Nov 2008 - May 2009
Contributions:70 commits in 6 months
rsanders/guineaping
Dec 2008 - Jan 2009
Contributions:18 commits in 22 days
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