# Robert O. > Software Engineer Location: Dallas, Texas, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/roberto1 Full stack developer with a demonstrated history of working in many business areas. Emphasis on leveraging open source tools and learning new technology. Additional skills in IT security, infrastructure automation, and Search Engine Optimization Works well with Docker / Kube / Golang / Python / confidence Technology professional with a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from The Ohio State University ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Censys Jan 2022 – Present I work as a software engineer on the platform engineering team at Censys. Censys has a goal to make the internet a safer place and to be the one place to understand everything on the internet. As a startup my primary objective in this position is to ship software quickly & reliably with minimal bugs 🐱‍💻🚢✔️ In this role I work with a small team (2 / 3 other developers) to create software for the other engineering teams to utilize. The software I help build comprises our new authentication system, the services that power our industry leading data pipeline, and bringing in new solutions to help power our platform. Technologies I work with are Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Prometheus, Alertmanager, Jaeger, gRPC, Golang, Python, React, Gitlab CI, and various types of open source software. https://censys.io/ https://github.com/censys ### Software Engineer @ StackPath Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 I work on StackPath's edge-compute product with a small team of developers. We specialize in cloud technology that has the ability to scale / replicate / provide resiliency FASTER than other cloud competitors I build the cloud 🔨👷☁️ This role specializes in Golang, Kubernetes operators, Kubernetes / Custom Resource Definitions, Kubernetes administration, backend services, GRPC, Docker, Automated Testing, Behavior Driven Development tests, Linux administration, networking, storage concepts, Agile / SAFE & releasing when ready https://github.com/stackpath https://www.stackpath.com/products/edge-compute ### Vice President SRE FinTech Consultant @ Contracting Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | DFW Senior Site Reliability Engineer / software consultant in a Fortune 500 FinTech under a IT Security organization and worked on reliability applications & transformation projects to help enable and improve resiliency / reliability / confidence overall at the enterprise Worked on applications to help deal with difficult and extensive application release process. Enabled and optimized a stronger ETL layer to provide metrics. Provided information and insights for cybersecurity related applications & tools Related work included: - Providing Agile & Scrum guidance / coaching while moving from a waterfall based Project Management strategy. Worked and contributed to establish a cadence in related Agile ceremonies - Set up CI/CD pipeline & troubleshooting methods, created service accounts, learned / used IT Security policy & communicated timelines accurately based on process & procedure - Peer reviewed code bases in languages such as React JS, Java, Python, CI/CD, Bash & provided guidance and feedback instead of simply just approving software - Mentored other developers in practices such as TDD and established codebases with 90%+ coverage ( in most cases ) for new features added during the Sprint ### Software Engineer 1 @ USAA Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Plano, Texas, United States • Lead a legacy WAS 8.5 Java software integration impacting over 1.5 billion communications a year. Architecting a strategy, working with others to create helper libraries to gather data, making REST calls and integration with Kafka. Worked with teammates to ensure testable libraries and maintained coverage to ensure multiple flawless releases • Helped junior developers in creating a ReactJS frontend for an internal application. Guided developers by using good automated Jest test practices and recommended libraries for them to use. Assisted setting up Redux for authentication and taught about correct patterns for state management • Created a Cassandra DB instance that integrated with our Gitlab CI pipeline for developers to test against while we waited for physical instances to become available. Provided seamless integration such that the pod was built on an initial branch and subsequent pushes would simply skip the step in the pipeline • Mentored and taught others on the team the value of DevOps and understanding the power of Docker for local infrastructure integrations. Additionally helped teammates understand complexities of Kubernetes and demystifying Gitlab CI • Setup Python script to automate creating Kafka clusters in Kubernetes in order to have a sandbox environment to test applications against. Configured the automation of Kibana Watcher Alerts from a Python script to automate deployments and saved developers time on configuring alerts. • Worked with business stakeholders to plan work for upcoming sprints (SAFE) and in refinement sessions for PI Planning. Worked with project owner to prioritize work for the team when ambiguous injects appeared ### Automation Developer @ Texas Instruments Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Dallas/Fort Worth Area • Worked on front-end application to dynamically build UI in ReactJS. Fit solution into legacy architecture by communicating with a Java Spring Boot Backend. • Developed automation code to communicate with manufacturing tools in the factory floor. Wrote in proprietary Autoshell code. ### Reporting Applications Developer @ Texas Instruments Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Dallas/Fort Worth Area • Refactored JS framework on an internal website that got over 6 million hits a year. Worked with infrastructure teams to modify network proxies to allow new changes to be updated without any end user interruption • Utilized Spotfire API to create a trigger based scheduling application to reduce data anomalies when Spotfire dashboards were scheduled. Managed data flow through Oracle DB and created JUnit test cases to automate testing app functionality. • Made scripts to modernize internal reporting site by removing duplicate information, sending out email reminders, and updating site banners and notifications. • Created reports in Spotfire and SAP Business Objects to help other stakeholders gain insights into business value. ### Security Infrastructure Developer @ Texas Instruments Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Dallas/Fort Worth Area • Re-architected an internal website moving from C# / MSSQL to Python / MYSQL that manages over 2 million hits a year to audit outside file sharing • Made modifications to an application that provisions NFS fileshares and AD Groups for fileshare access eliminating up to 800 tickets per month from manual provisioning • Created an application to audit external network requests on a yearly basis removing the manual communication for over 2000 requests ### ECommerce Developer @ King Memory, LLC Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Columbus, Ohio Area • Managed and worked with a team of 2 other developers to create new rounds of listings for eBay, Amazon and Walmart sales channels • Built out the internal software to interact with the Walmart API and made the initial launch of 1000 products to Walmart • Developed scoring system to help determine correlation of listings on Amazon to those that were RAM • Programmatically updated and launched Amazon and eBay listings using respective APIs and recorded information in multiple data sources • Created program to develop over 50k unique Google AdWord campaigns linking to generated listings ### IT Intern @ Texas Instruments Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Dallas/Fort Worth Area ### ECommerce Developer @ King Memory, LLC Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Columbus, Ohio Area ### IT Security Intern @ L Brands Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Columbus, Ohio Area ### ECommerce Developer @ King Memory, LLC Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Columbus, Ohio Area ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science The Ohio State University Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/robert-otting - Website: https://welcome-to.robs.dev --- Source: https://flows.cv/roberto1 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/roberto1/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22