# Robert Willard

> Platform Engineer

Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/robertwillard

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Thyme Care
Jan 2024 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ FLYR Labs
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Member of Cloud Team and Data Platform Team.
With the cloud team, I designed and implemented a platform agnostic solution for FLYR GCP stack.
With the data platform team, I designed and built a data obfuscation tool for usage with sales demos. Responsible for building tools/implementations of Argo Workflows, Airflow, Cloud Composer and DBT.
Work with other teams at FLYR to utilize these technologies.

### Senior DevOps Engineer @ FLYR Labs
Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Build and maintain our production stack on Kubernetes clusters on GCP. Develop CI/CD pipelines for microservices with CircleCi and Spinnaker.

### Backend Engineer @ ProductBio
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
Built and maintain our production stack on a Kubernetes cluster on CoreOS instances on AWS.

### Software Engineer @ Preact
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Worked with a small team of engineers on Customer Success software. I optimized Ruby queue workers to improve performance. Rewrote logic, minimized DB calls and optimized garbage collection. Built a mock data generator for use internally and externally with Preact. Helped build a new development environment to more closely match production systems. Built a collector for creating and pushing new events to Amazon Kinesis

### Jr Software Engineer @ Divshot
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015
Began with QA and customer support work for web-based visual HTML editor. As product shifted to developer-focused hosting platform, started work on several projects including hostname resolution and lookup service and containerization of various infrastructure components.

### QA Engineer @ Intridea, Inc
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012
Manually tested and wrote automated tests for more than 30 web and mobile applications. Investigated user and client-reported bugs and collaborated with developers to identify, reliably reproduce, and fix issues.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
Kansas State University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/robert-willard-42bb06106

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Last updated: 2026-04-01