Rob Clark
Senior Vice President Technology Services at Pax8
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Clark is a seasoned engineering executive with 13+ years in senior leadership and over two decades of hands-on software experience, now leading Platform Engineering at Pearson. He has a strong track record building scalable SaaS and enterprise systems as VP/Director across Oracle, BMC, Cognizant and more, combining enterprise architecture discipline with agile full-stack delivery. Rob blends strategic program leadership with low-level technical chops—his open-source contributions include adding VXLAN packet parsing to the widely used gopacket library, showing continued interest in systems and networking. Based in the Denver area, he excels at aligning platform investments to business outcomes and enabling teams to ship resilient, high-value products. He holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of Connecticut and brings a pragmatic mix of research-era engineering rigor and modern cloud-native practices.
14 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at University of Connecticut
Github Skills (8)
packet-analysis10
vxlan10
go10
network-protocol10
gopacket10
udp7
ipv46
ethernet5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
google/gopacket
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Provides packet processing capabilities for Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 PR, 5 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Rob's contributions focused on implementing a VXLAN layer within the `gopacket` library. They added code to parse VXLAN headers, including support for the VXLAN Network Identifier (VNI), and group policy extensions. The changes involved modifications to existing layer definitions, the addition of new layer types, and the implementation of decoding functions to handle VXLAN packet parsing. The changes allow the library to now dissect and analyze VXLAN traffic, enhancing its packet processing capabilities.
go
hyakuhei/attackTrees
Apr 2021 - Sep 2021
Modeling, analyzing and rendering attack trees.
Contributions:2 reviews, 74 commits, 33 PRs in 4 months
rendering
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