Rob Dimsdale-zucker
Engineering Director at Pivotal Software, Inc.
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRob Dimsdale-zucker is an Engineering Director based in New York with 12 years of hands-on experience leading and scaling cloud-native engineering teams. He manages an office of ~40 engineers and provides technical leadership across multiple product teams, blending people management with a strong background in backend, DevOps, and test automation. His open-source contributions span high-impact cloud projects—Cloud Foundry, Concourse, and the Ginkgo testing framework—where he’s improved deployment automation, CI resilience, and test reliability. Technically fluent in Go, Ruby, Bash and infrastructure automation, he’s known for pragmatic refactors, robust error handling, and shipping reliable tooling for distributed systems. Early career work ranges from embedded C and C++ signal-processing to Java web systems, giving him an unusual breadth from low-level performance to large-scale platform engineering. He combines Cambridge engineering training with a track record of mentoring engineers into leadership and driving cross-team technical execution.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Information Science/Studies, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Information Science/Studies at University of Cambridge
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Github Skills (39)
cloud-foundry10
postgresql10
continuous-integration10
github10
back-end-development10
scripting10
testing10
bash10
ui-design10
cicd10
ruby10
concourse10
uid10
automation10
script10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/cf-acceptance-tests
Oct 2015 - May 2016
CF Acceptance tests
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 39 commits, 23 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Rob primarily contributed to the Cloud Foundry acceptance tests, adding missing imports to various test files, including those related to services and routing. They merged remote-tracking branches, indicating involvement in integrating external contributions. Furthermore, the user was involved in modifying backend configurations related to the deployment environment, and also updated tests to ensure the correct backend was set before starting apps.
testingacceptance-testscff-wg-app-runtime-deploymentsacceptance
cloudfoundry-attic/cf-release
Aug 2014 - May 2016
Deprecated: Cloud Foundry Release
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:109 commits, 22 PRs, 125 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Rob primarily focused on updating and refining the Cloud Foundry release, specifically related to deployment, infrastructure, and configuration. They made significant changes to deployment manifests, including modifications to network settings, security groups, and cloud properties. The user also worked on the route registrar, implementing Golang-based features, health checks, and updating configurations. Furthermore, there were updates to the ruby and go environment with several dependency bumps.
cloud-foundry
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