# Rob Brockbank

> Senior Principal Engineer at Palo Alto Networks

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/robbrockbank

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Palo Alto Networks
Jan 2022 – Present | Santa Clara County, California, United States

### Principal Software Engineer @ Tigera
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

### Senior Software Engineer @ Tigera
Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 | Greater Los Angeles Area
Tigera, the inventor and maintainer of open source Calico, delivers Calico Cloud, the next-generation cloud service for Kubernetes security and observability. Tigera's Kubernetes native service extends the declarative nature of Kubernetes to specify "security and observability as code," which ensures consistent enforcement of security policies and compliance and provides observability and troubleshooting across multi-cluster, multi-cloud and hybrid deployments. Tigera's solution is used by some of the world's leading companies, including AT&T, Bloomberg, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Robinhood, ServiceNow, and Visa.

Project Calico is the most widely adopted solution for Kubernetes networking and security, powering 1M+ nodes daily across 166 countries. Calico is the only solution with a pluggable data plane architecture enabling support for multiple data planes, including standard Linux, eBPF, and Windows.

### Evangelist at Project Calico / Senior Software Engineer @ Metaswitch Networks
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 | 201 Potrero Ave, San Francisco, CA 94103

### Software Engineer in Professional Services @ Metaswitch Networks
Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 | 201 Potrero Ave, San Francisco, CA 94103

### Software Engineer in Customer Support @ Metaswitch Networks
Jan 2005 – Jan 2009 | 100 Church St, Enfield EN2 6BQ, United Kingdom

### Software Engineer @ Metaswitch Networks
Jan 2000 – Jan 2005 | 100 Church St, Enfield EN2 6BQ, United Kingdom


## Education
### Part III Mathematics in Applied Mathematics
University of Cambridge

### Optically detected NMR of 2D electron gas spin excitations in GaAs heterostructures
University of Oxford

### BA in Physics and Theoretical Physics
University of Cambridge


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rob-brockbank-1474811

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Last updated: 2026-04-12