# Rob Reeves > Apache Spark at LinkedIn Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/robreeves ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ LinkedIn Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area I work on scaling Apache Spark to provide compute at LinkedIn. I previously worked on the jobs team to make it easier for hirers to discover and post jobs on LinkedIn. I focused on the data and machine learning layers of the stack. ### Senior Software Engineer @ LinkedIn Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area I worked on the Talent Insights (LTI) data infrastructure team. We're responsible for offline data processing and online data access for the product. Our team makes it possible for LTI to support billions of search combinations over terabytes of data in real-time. ### Senior Software Engineer @ SnapLogic Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area SnapLogic provides a SaaS integration platform that allows customers to visually build data pipelines from streaming components with specific functionality (i.e. reading from a database, joining data, writing to a distributed file system). I worked on the team responsible for writing the data pipeline components (Snaps). ### Senior Software Engineer @ OSIsoft Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area I worked on the next generation platform for streaming data into the PI System. The platform includes a SDK, all data flow components and the central administration application. ### Software Engineer @ OSIsoft Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Technical Support Escalation Engineer @ OSIsoft Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Bay Area My primary responsibility was to determine the root cause of production issues. This often required me to analyze heap and thread dumps and debug the source code. I split my time between development working on the PI Connector platform team and support role during this period. ### Technical Support Engineer @ OSIsoft Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Customer Support Engineer @ OSIsoft Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Graduate Research Assistant @ University of Maryland Baltimore County Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | Baltimore, Maryland Area The goal of this project was to develop curriculum to increase high school student interest in STEM career paths. We develop several modules that consisted of mini-design challenges coupled with computer based learning activities and a multi-week final design challenge (i.e. build a kidney dialysis machine). During my time on the project I led a team of four undergraduate students and implemented the curriculum with 15 high school teachers and 1000 students. I was responsible for analyzing the student learning data, administering existing curriculum modules and developing future curriculum. ### Graduate Research Assistant @ University of Maryland Baltimore County Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | Baltimore, Maryland Area Designed a transport system to move a viscous petroleum derivative between refineries. Used Matlab to model six different solutions and then did a statistical analysis using Minitab to determine which design attributes made a significant difference. Used this information to optimize operating costs while balancing the initial capital costs of the designs. ### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ University of Maryland Baltimore County Jan 2005 – Jan 2009 | Baltimore, Maryland Area Research focused on designing biomaterials for tissue engineering applications, such as scaffolds to support neural regeneration. My focus was on material synthesis and characterization. ### Summer Intern @ Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 | Pearl River, NY Developed separation techniques to isolate molecules of interest. Focused on high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and solid phase extraction methods. Learned how to program a new, automated HPLC system and wrote equipment protocols to enable others to be able to use equipment. ## Education ### Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science University of San Francisco ### Master of Science (M.S.) in Chemical Engineering University of Maryland Baltimore County ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Chemical Engineering University of Maryland Baltimore County ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/robertpreeves - GitHub: https://github.com/robreeves/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/robreeves JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/robreeves/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12