Summary
Robin Cottiss is a Distinguished Solution Engineer with over two decades of IT experience, currently shaping enterprise analytics and pre-sales strategies at Salesforce and Tableau. He combines deep technical expertise in BI, data warehousing, OLAP, and large-scale web architectures with strong product management, technical marketing, and evangelism skills. A practiced consultant to Fortune 500 firms and government agencies, Robin has designed complex data warehouses, multi-measure cubes and optimized ETL processes to meet demanding SLAs. He brings international experience across the Americas, Europe, Japan and Australia and excels at translating technical complexity into compelling presentations and visual assets. Unusually, his background spans both hands-on engineering (from Oracle DBA and CTO roles to BI architect) and high-level product strategy, enabling him to bridge technical and commercial conversations effectively. Based in North Carolina, he couples practical implementation knowledge with a talent for crafting user-centered analytics experiences.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computation, BSc, Computation at The University of Manchester