Greg Cobb
R D Engineer Software 5 at Broadcom
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGreg Cobb is a seasoned R&D software engineer with 13 years of experience, currently working as R&D Engineer Software 5 at Broadcom in San Francisco. As a former Staff Engineer and Technical Lead at VMware, he designed and led development of a new REST API and CLI for VMware Tanzu Application Service, bridging developer tooling and platform services. He has deep backend and test-automation expertise, including maintainership of the well-known Jasmine JavaScript testing framework and contributions to Cloud Foundry’s CLI and acceptance tests—adding JSON-parameterized service-key support and hardening CI with focused integration tests. Educated at Georgia Tech with additional study in Barcelona, he blends academic rigor with practical systems design. Early-career entrepreneurship as a CourseShark co-founder and an A/B testing implementation at Twitter reflect his product-minded engineering. He’s known for pragmatic improvements to developer experience, observability, and reliability across cloud-native platforms.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyCenter for Advanced Studies at Wheeler High SchoolUPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
English, French, Bengali
Github Skills (25)
api-doc10
json10
javascript10
documentations10
cloud-foundry10
testing10
tasks10
go10
api10
javascripts10
tdd10
service-broker10
http210
automated-tests10
jasmine10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/cli
May 2015 - Nov 2018
The official command line client for Cloud Foundry
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:71 commits, 9 PRs, 63 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Greg focused on enhancing the Cloud Foundry command-line interface (CLI), specifically the `create-service-key` command. Their contributions included adding the ability to pass arbitrary parameters as either a JSON string or a JSON file when creating service keys, and improving the error messaging for invalid JSON input. Additionally, the user updated the service keys repository and models to facilitate this new functionality, which included adding a parameter field. They also refactored and improved existing test cases related to service key creation.
foundrycf-clicloud-foundrycloud-foundry-clicli
cloudfoundry/cf-acceptance-tests
Apr 2015 - Jun 2022
CF Acceptance tests
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 39 commits, 7 PRs in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Greg primarily focused on enhancing the Cloud Foundry acceptance tests. Their contributions included refactoring service-related tests by moving global variables into their own file, thus improving code organization. Furthermore, the user added tests for service keys, bindings, and private service brokers. They also updated the tasks and routing tests. In addition, the user implemented features to log request headers within the CATS broker and updated tests related to the HTTP/2-only routing.
testingacceptance-testscff-wg-app-runtime-deploymentsacceptance
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