Rob Heckel
Senior Engineer - Cloud Engineering at Toyota Connected North America
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolRob Heckel is a senior cloud engineer with a proven track record leading DevOps, SRE, and platform initiatives across large organizations. Based in Houston, he currently serves as Senior Engineer - Cloud Engineering at Toyota Connected North America, where he champions production readiness, security remediation in AWS, and Kubernetes lifecycle improvements. Prior to that, he managed cloud reliability and platform engineering at NOV, delivering significant cost savings (Azure remediation reducing spend by 64%) and migrating data centers to the public cloud, while standing up an open-source-driven SRE program with Prometheus, Grafana, and Selenium. His experience spans containerized platforms, Kubernetes, Terraform and Ansible automation, and bridging Dev and Ops to accelerate delivery. Earlier roles show hands-on Linux systems administration and enterprise IT support, underscoring a practical, end-to-end engineering perspective. Rob's background combines technical depth with leadership in shaping SDLC, DevOps, and SRE practices to drive efficiency and reliability.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Penn State University
Stackoverflow
193reputation
35kreached
3answers
2questions
Github Skills (200)
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rancher10
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monitoring10
sensu10
mysql10
alerts10
promql10
rule10
docker10
resource-management10
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cdr9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
billabongrob/sftp-exporter
Jan 2021 - Feb 2025
A Prometheus exporter to collect metrics and status of SFTP Connections
Contributions:4 releases, 25 PRs, 36 pushes in 4 years 1 month
monitoringprometheusprometheus-exportersftp
billabongrob/billabongrob.github.io
Feb 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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