Robin Roth
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Google
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolRobin Roth is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Google with 14 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, automation, and monitoring systems. He combines deep SRE practice—Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Prometheus—with hands-on backend work in Python and a long history of systems administration on Linux. Before switching to IT full time he earned a PhD in theoretical particle physics, bringing strong analytical rigor and experience in parallel Monte Carlo computation to production reliability problems. An active open-source contributor, he has made notable fixes and feature additions to the widely used Ansible project (including ansible-pull, git handling, and zypper modules), reflecting expertise in automation at scale. Based in Munich, he thrives at the intersection of research-grade problem solving and pragmatic DevOps engineering.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Physik, Physik at Cornell University
German, English, Spanish, Latin
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Github Skills (24)
git10
zypper10
package-management10
python10
suse10
opensuse10
cicd10
automation10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
automations10
devops10
linux9
yaml8
dockers7
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible
Dec 2014 - Mar 2019
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:93 commits, 87 PRs, 672 comments in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Robin primarily contributed to the `ansible/ansible` repository by implementing features and addressing bugs within the `ansible-pull` utility. These changes included adding a depth option for shallow checkouts, modifying default behavior, and fixing whitespace issues. In addition to this, the user made several changes to the `Facts` module, including removing unused imports and fixing version parsing. The user also made improvements and tests to the distribution versions in fact.py.
ansibleautomationnetwork-configurationsshpython
ansible/ansible-modules-extras
Jul 2016 - Oct 2016
Ansible extra modules - these modules ship with ansible
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 commits, 11 PRs, 106 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Robin primarily contributed to the `zypper` module, which manages packages on SUSE and openSUSE systems. Their work involved bug fixes, refactoring, and implementing new features such as version specifiers, `oldpackage` options, and auto-importing GPG keys for repositories. They also made significant changes to the `zypper_repository` module, adding features for managing and refreshing repositories. The user's contributions show a deep understanding of system administration and automation within the Ansible framework.
ansible
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