Bob Strecansky
Staff Engineer at Intuit
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolBob Strecansky is a Staff Engineer based in Atlanta with a decade of experience driving site reliability and performance for Mailchimp customers within Intuit. He leads SRE practices and cross-team initiatives to improve uptime, stability, and application performance for business-critical systems. Hands-on and detail-oriented, he pairs leadership with backend engineering — contributing to OpenTelemetry PHP (adding samplers, timestamps, and span linking) and to Certbot's ACME client (debugging retry-unwrapping, improving error visibility and packaging). A Clemson-trained computer engineer, he blends large-enterprise integration experience from Akamai with a practical focus on observability and automated testing.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering at Clemson UniversityHilton Head PrepSaucon Valley High School
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Github Skills (28)
unit-testing10
open-telemetry-go10
tracer10
python10
testing10
acme10
open-telemetry10
php10
http-request10
opentelemetry10
error-handling10
http-requests10
trace10
ci-cd9
lets-encrypt8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-php
Sep 2019 - Sep 2022
The OpenTelemetry PHP Library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 517 reviews, 49 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Bob contributed to the OpenTelemetry PHP library by adding functionality related to tracing and instrumentation. Their work included adding support for samplers, setting up examples and tests demonstrating various tracing configurations. The user also made updates to the core tracing components, including Span and Tracer classes, implementing features like timestamps and span linking. Furthermore, they focused on improving code quality by fixing PHP coding standards.
opentelemetry-phpphptracingloggingotel
certbot/certbot
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Certbot is EFF's tool to obtain certs from Let's Encrypt and (optionally) auto-enable HTTPS on your server. It can also act as a client for any other CA that uses the ACME protocol.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:12 commits, 7 PRs, 58 comments in 14 days
Contributions summary:Bob's contributions primarily focused on debugging and refining error handling within the `acme` client library, specifically related to unwrapping max retries exceeded errors. They addressed issues within the `acme/acme/client.py` and `acme/acme/client_test.py` files. Furthermore, the user contributed by improving error messages in tests and ensuring better error visibility. Additionally, a change was made to help with supporting Fedora 26 package installation.
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