Robert Vawter
Cat Technology Officer
Reston, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Vawter is a pragmatic engineering leader and full-stack systems tinkerer with 20+ years solving hard production problems, often dropped into late-stage customer engagements to bridge gaps between product and real-world environments. Based in Reston, VA, he’s been working in Go for seven years and brings deep experience across Java, Kotlin, TypeScript and cloud-native deployments, plus a background in SRE and compiler/tooling from Google. He excels at building pragmatic, reusable tooling (examples include customer-facing Go utilities and a CDC sink toolbox) and calming high-stakes customer situations with technical competence and “assertive empathy.” An entrepreneur as well as an engineer, he runs a bootstrapped five-axis machine shop where his code literally makes buildings vibrate, and he’s been successfully remote since 2008 while remaining travel-ready for critical on-site work.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. (Incomplete), Computer Science / Applied Math, B.S. (Incomplete), Computer Science / Applied Math at Case Western Reserve University
Github Skills (80)
high-availability10
cloud-native10
oracle-client10
sql10
database10
cockroachdb10
go10
distributed-database10
sql-database10
logical-replication10
github-integration9
charts9
helm9
ruby9
oracle9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
bobvawter/latch
Nov 2020 - May 2023
A notification-based, counter latch
Contributions:8 PRs, 17 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 6 months
golang
bobvawter/cockroach
Mar 2018 - Jan 2022
CockroachDB - the open source, cloud-native SQL database.
Contributions:1 PR, 238 pushes, 136 branches in 3 years 10 months
mysqlsql-databasesqlcockroachdboracle
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