Rob Stave is a seasoned software leader with over 10 years of formal experience and a multi-decade engineering background, currently leading SOC teams at Masergy while also serving as a Senior Software Engineer Team Lead at KLDiscovery. Trained in electrical engineering (UC San Diego) with an MSEE from UCLA, he blends deep systems and full-stack development expertise with practical leadership in security operations and team delivery. His career spans telecommunications and enterprise software, including long tenures at Nortel and InterLegis, where he focused on scalable, reliable systems. Outside work he pursues hands-on tinkering—Arduino sound projects and AI experiments on GitHub—bringing a hardware-minded curiosity to software problems. Robust mentorship, cross-disciplinary fluency, and a penchant for turning experimental prototypes into production-ready features distinguish his approach.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San Diego
MSEE, MSEE at University of California, Los Angeles
Contributions:3 PRs, 96 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
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