Ron Nollen
Solutions Engineer at Cockroach Labs
Rancho Mirage, California, United States
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Top SchoolRon Nollen is a Solutions Engineer with 10 years of recent experience and over three decades in database and systems roles, currently helping customers at Cockroach Labs adopt resilient, distributed data platforms. He brings deep Oracle DBA pedigree from higher education and enterprise settings and a stint as an AWS Database Solutions Architect, giving him practical expertise across on-prem RAC clusters, cloud-native databases, and transactional systems. Ron’s background includes architecting finance transaction components at Amazon and teaching advanced mathematics, a combination that sharpens his analytical rigor and ability to explain complex designs clearly. He excels at translating legacy Oracle deployments into modern, scalable architectures while keeping operational reliability front and center. Based in Rancho Mirage, CA, he pairs hands-on technical troubleshooting with customer-facing solution design, often spotting migration pitfalls before they surface. Notably, his career blends long-term institutional knowledge with recent cloud-first database strategy, making him effective at bridging teams during transformation projects.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's, Teaching, Master's, Teaching at University of Puget Sound
Github Skills (21)
cockroachdb10
sql10
database10
mysql9
postgresql9
go9
sql-database9
distributed-database9
cloud-native8
distributed-systems8
kubernetes8
azure6
arangodb5
microsoft5
adapter3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nollenr/CloudFormationVPC
Dec 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:56 commits, 55 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
nollenr/FTSE-Fact-Table_Build
Apr 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:121 pushes, 7 branches in 3 months
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