Rob Leach Email & Phone Number

Saint Paul, MN, US

Minnesota, United States

Principal Engineers in Production Engineering have a wide remit of technical leadership responsibility. Additional SWAT and ad-hoc support span across all four pillars: Experience-Centric (embedded) Site-Reliability Engineering, Performance and Efficiency Engineering, Operations Center, and Developer Experience. Notable challenges met as Technical Lead for.

Founding member of Experience-Centric Site Reliability Engineering at Target. "POS Scantimes SRE" was tasked with making visible, protecting, and improving the guest experience the the "add to cart" portion of a visit. Target's modern, developer-focused, microservice architecture causes this experience to span dozens of application instances both at-store.

Provided targeted data-driven tuning and improving of business applications as well as their supporting Cloud and Compute services. Results and examples of these engagements are shared with wider C&C audiences to support our always-learning community.

DevOps engineering for the high-scale multi-site Openstack cloud platform. Key Development (2019) AIR - Active Infrastructure Rebalancer. Unlocking $7M+ of computing hardware within the infrastructure.Operational responsibilities such as on-call rotation, incident response, incident handlingMonitoring modernization of private cloud platform in support of.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

• Provide technical expertise to the team. This includes the recommendation of solutions and the identification of risks.
• Provide progress reports to leadership
• Schedule and facilitate solution walkthroughs
• Serve as a subject matter expert within the team
• Work on continuous improvement projects within the team and mentor engineers as appropriate
• Review requirements and functional specifications and provide feedback to the team Including participation/input to the… Show more

Brooklyn Park, MN

• Operational Excellence - In-House Data-in-motion Framework
• Led operations of a new, multi-component, at-scale pipeline solution under *continuous-development* - 500+ VMs at 95%+ uptime - 5 distinct sub-components - 3+ data types - 3 systems (test, stage, prod) - 250,000 Events.
• Designed a modular pipeline system to support our massive height (250Keps) and width (50+ possible path-sections) - Developed… Show more Operational Excellence - In-House Data-in-motion Framework
• Designed a modular pipeline system to support our massive height (250Keps) and width (50+ possible path-sections) - Developed custom sizing tools for on-the-fly system scaling - Targeted development to close gaps in.
• Fostered strong partnership patterns with Developer-Customers
• "Data Librarian" has full access to alter all phases of the pipeline, without Operational concern

(Remote) Eden Prairie, Minnesota

• Reporting to the Director of ACSS Capabilities
• Identify and empower shadow developers across many lines of business.
• Build business and technical frameworks for shadow projects to operate in concert with traditional large IT offers
• Implement strategic proof-of-concept solutions
• Collect, maintain, and advertise a portfolio of shadow tools.
• Advise on the yearly requirements definitions for traditional, large, IT offers

Eden Prarie, Minnesota

• Master ProSupport Engineer (L4) - Alternate Operating Systems (Oct 2013 - 2016)
• Use technical ability to resolve highly complex issues for enterprise solutions
• Coaches and mentors and provides guidance to employees to help them improve their technical skills
• Provide technical assistance to help resolve issues relating to a variety of enterprise technologies
• Research and reproduce technical issues using enterprise data center lab resources
• Work with vendors’… Show more Master ProSupport Engineer (L4) - Alternate Operating Systems (Oct 2013 - 2016)

Minnetonka, MN

• Continuation of prior engagements as Software Engineer at Siemens.Lead Integrator (2011-2013) Con Edison Smart Grid Project to the US DOE
• Lowered costs, raised productivity through Virtualization.
• Led multi-company secure web service testing simultaneously across all US time-zones.
• TIBCO EMS, Hawk, PolicyManager/PolicyAgent, BusinessWorks, and many other technologies
• Leveraged the Siemens Adapter Framework to integrate TIBCO and… Show more Continuation of prior engagements as Software Engineer at Siemens.Lead Integrator (2011-2013) Con Edison Smart Grid Project to the US DOE
• Leveraged the Siemens Adapter Framework to integrate TIBCO and Spectrum Visualzation (VIS)

Minnetonka, Minnesota

• Systems Integration for PJM 2008-2011 Integrator - Shared Architecture (2009 - 2011)
• Implemented code release system conforming to Development-Stage-Production
• Released RCS and Rational ClearCase simultaneously both weekly and on-demand
• Streamlined build process to one-click compile-deploy, changing hours to minutes
• Supported Progress Sonic ESB/MQ 7.6 infrastructure.
• Managed testers' daily execution system tests across… Show more Systems Integration for PJM 2008-2011 Integrator - Shared Architecture (2009 - 2011)

• Worked with an extremely large, multi-language, multi-platform, source tree
• Defect/Bug tracking, management, and resolution
• Base product testing

• Research, Development, and Fabrication of Arcade Exact Controllers
• Supported multiple product lines
• Website (Support, Troubleshooting and Sales)
• Internet Sales across the United States, Canada and Europe

B.S., Computer Science

Undergraduate in Computer Science, Interesting courses: Assembly deconstruction Artificial Intelligence I (Lisp) Artificial Intelligence.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science