Rob Boll
Senior Director Of Engineering at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRob Boll is a Senior Director of Engineering at Datadog in New York with 13 years of experience focused on building scalable observability infrastructure. He rose through Datadog’s ranks from Software Engineer to Senior Director, blending hands-on development with strategic leadership to improve platform reliability and delivery. An active open-source contributor to the helmfile project, he has enhanced its build process, vendor dependency management, CLI versioning, and code consistency—underscoring a practical focus on developer experience and deployability. A Stony Brook computer science graduate, Rob is known for pairing operational rigor with pragmatic tooling improvements that make complex distributed systems easier to ship and maintain.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at State University of New York at Stony Brook
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Github Skills (14)
go10
helm10
charting9
charts9
kubernetes-pod9
kubernetes9
automations8
automation8
ci-cd8
commandline-interface6
command-line-interface6
dockerce4
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
roboll/helmfile
Nov 2016 - Mar 2018
Deploy Kubernetes Helm Charts
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:375 releases, 28 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Rob's contributions center around enhancing the project's build process and infrastructure. They added dependencies necessary for vendor management. Furthermore, the user implemented versioning within the application and made formatting changes to ensure consistent code style. These commits also indicate the user's focus on improving the command-line tool's functionality.
chartscharthelmhelm-charthelmfile
roboll/roboll.github.io
Jan 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:69 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 2 years 9 months
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