Rob Mengert
Kubernetes Engineer at Defense Unicorns
Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolRob Mengert is a Kubernetes Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and operating datacenter and network architectures, currently building cloud-native platforms at Defense Unicorns. He progressed from help-desk and network operations roles at Lehman and Barclays to senior architecture and principal engineering positions at Charter, where he led lab builds, technology certification, and vendor partnerships. Rob blends deep networking expertise with modern orchestration and platform thinking, making him effective at certifying new technologies and shepherding them into production. Based in Colorado, he balances a family-first ethos with a clear drive to shape next-generation datacenters. A pragmatic problem-solver, he’s comfortable both mentoring teams and diving into escalations to resolve complex infrastructure issues. Though low-key online, his steady career arc reflects consistent technical growth and operational ownership across financial and telecommunications environments.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology
Italian, English
Github Skills (62)
kubernetes10
docker-registry9
docker8
k8s8
certificate8
cosign8
sbom8
graph8
networking8
terraform8
k3s8
letsencrypt7
cubing7
obs7
security7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
TheFutonEng/Calico-CNI-Tutorial
Sep 2020 - May 2022
This repo allows someone to quickly spin up an environment to explore Project Calico, the CNI and the interaction between them.
Contributions:1 PR, 30 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 7 months
calicocnicalico-tutorials
figone59/Learning-Python
Dec 2015 - Mar 2019
Contributions:2 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 4 months
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