Summary
Robert Wyatt is a senior engineering and program management leader with over three decades of hands-on experience designing and shipping embedded systems, SDN/virtual networking, and large-scale distributed cloud services. Currently a Senior Director TPM at Salesforce, he blends deep systems programming (C/C++, Java, Go, Python) with product and program leadership across monitoring, observability, and DLP pipelines that handle trillions of events per day. He excels at rapid prototyping and pragmatic delivery—favoring quick shipping with planned refactoring—while driving reliability and scalability for mission-critical infrastructure. His background includes building virtual router management, custom device-to-cloud protocols, and Kafka/Thrift-based orchestration at F5, NetSocket and Cisco. An avid technologist who learns new stacks quickly, he also pilots a 1967 Beechcraft around the Pacific Northwest, a hobby that reflects his focus, precision and taste for disciplined complexity.
10 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Prince Edward Island
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University of Toronto