Robert Schwartz
Staff Platform Developer
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Schwartz is a Staff Platform Developer based in Ottawa with three decades of experience in software development and cloud services, currently shaping platform reliability and developer experience at Plusgrade. A founder of LaneChange.Net since 1999, he blends entrepreneurial instincts with hands-on cloud operations expertise honed through senior DevOps and test engineering roles at Fuze. He has led cross-functional teams delivering core VoIP, device provisioning, and production cloud operations, focusing on scalable, observable systems. Known as a "cloud operations engineer by day, lots of randomness by night," he brings pragmatic troubleshooting skills and a curiosity-driven approach to problem solving. His background spans product management at Corel and early payment systems work at Optimal Payments, giving him a rare mix of product sensibility and deep technical craft. Colleagues rely on him for steady leadership during migrations and incident response as well as for mentoring engineers in operational best practices.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Concordia University
Github Skills (67)
powerdns10
terraform10
dns10
terraform-provider10
dnssec10
aws10
ubuntu9
docker-container9
terraform-module9
handlebars9
dockerfile8
vuejs28
fedora8
docker-image8
cube8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
smellyspice/pdns
Aug 2019 - Sep 2022
PowerDNS
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
dnspowerdns
smellyspice/fastrf24
Jan 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 17 days
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