About

Robert Roland is a highly skilled software engineer with over 20 years of experience in the industry. He is passionate about data, analytics, design, leadership, and software craftsmanship. Currently, he is working as a Principal Software Engineer at Symantec, where he leads the engineering team for a Java Swing-based user interface to an appliance-based security incident tracking and log management system. He is responsible for mentoring junior engineers in all facets of the development process, including design, development, and unit testing. Additionally, he has performed extensive debugging of a large-scale, distributed system, including a user interface running on Windows and all server code on a Linux system. In the past, Robert has worked as a Principal Software Engineer at Shopzilla, where he managed and mentored a team of three software engineers to overhaul the business-to-business management portal, including daily financial reporting and placement bidding platform. Heavily utilized Spring Framework for MVC, Apache CXF for both SOAP and RESTful web services, and Oracle 10g for data persistence. He also built a content management system in Django and nginx to power all content served on TaDa.com and was a core developer on the rewrite of bizrate.com web site from Perl to Java 6. Furthermore, he built several mission-critical, scheduled, daily batch processing jobs in Spring Batch. Robert has also worked as a Software Architect at Simply Measured, where he migrated the existing datastore from MongoDB to Apache HBase, including data migrations, all middle-tier services to interact with HBase. He has full-stack Hadoop and HBase work, including OS-level optimizations and deployment and integration with Chef. Additionally, he integrated Apache Hive as a query engine for HBase and developed an open-source serialization library for integrating Hive and HBase. He also developed custom user-defined functions for Hive to meet their query needs. Robert's tech stack includes Software Engineer, AWS, Puppet, Terraform, Clojure, and Senior Software Engineer. With his relevant experience of 20.62 years, Robert is a seasoned professional who has a track record of delivering high-quality software solutions.