Rob Shakir
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarRob Shakir is a Senior Staff Software Engineer and IP Architect at Google in San Francisco with 10 years of experience building software-defined networking systems. He is a tech lead and active contributor to prominent OpenConfig projects — notably gNMI (the gRPC Network Management Interface) and featureprofiles — doing hands-on work from regenerating protobufs to modernizing test suites. Rob blends backend protocol engineering with QA and test automation, replacing legacy frameworks (ondatra.RunTests) with fptest.RunTests to make network management tooling more compatible and reliable. He focuses on pragmatic, low-level improvements that make complex networks more programmable, repeatable, and easier for operators and developers to integrate.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (14)
protocol-buffer10
go10
grpc10
protocol-buffers10
test-automation10
testing10
net9
protobuf38
api8
protobuff8
api-doc8
yaml8
protobuf8
protobufs8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
openconfig/gnmi
Feb 2018 - May 2022
gRPC Network Management Interface
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 38 commits, 20 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Rob primarily focused on updating and regenerating protocol buffer definitions within the gNMI repository. Their commits involve the regeneration of `.pb.go` files, incorporating optimizations from updated protobuf libraries, and also updating protobuf files with the latest dependencies. These changes are critical for maintaining compatibility and utilizing the latest features of the protocol buffer tools, directly impacting the gNMI service's functionality and performance.
golanggrpcnetwork-managementnetworking
openconfig/featureprofiles
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
Feature Profiles are groups of OpenConfig paths and tests which verify their behavior
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:216 reviews, 60 commits, 62 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Rob primarily focused on updating and expanding the test suite within the repository. Their contributions involved replacing older testing frameworks (`ondatra.RunTests`) with a newer one (`fptest.RunTests`). This included modifying existing test files and configurations. Additionally, the user implemented and validated tests related to gNMI Get RPC and default IPv4/IPv6 configurations.
groupsyang5gnetwork-automationtesting
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