Rob Wultsch

Rob Wultsch has a diverse work experience that spans over several companies. Rob started their career as a Web Developer at East Valley Tribune in 2006 and then moved on to work as a Web Developer at Responsive Data in 2008. In the same year, they joined GoDaddy.com as a MySQL Database Administrator and stayed with the company until 2011. Following that, Rob transitioned to Facebook as a MySQL Database Engineer and worked there until 2013. At Facebook, they gained experience in database engineering.

In 2013, Rob joined Pinterest as a MySQL Database Engineer where they created a management framework for handling the entire MySQL lifecycle on AWS. Rob also ported parts of the framework to Redis and open-sourced it. During their time at Pinterest, Rob contributed significantly to the development of the company's ETL system.

In 2017, they moved to Fastly and worked as a Data Reliability Engineer. Rob was responsible for managing MySQL, queues (NSQ), and consumers of queues. Rob made significant improvements by rewriting the MySQL configuration management and implementing ProxySQL, Orchestrator, and XtraBackup.

In 2018, Rob joined Box as a Senior Database Engineer. Rob'snotable contributions include overhauling the alerting system, which reduced paging incidents from 150 per week to 15. Rob also wrote Python code and conducted extensive testing.

In 2020, Rob "boomerang'ed" back to Fastly as a Staff Data Reliability Engineer. In this role, they focused on Go programming and had less involvement with MySQL. One of their significant achievements was creating a 67-line bash script that had a major impact on the company.

Overall, Rob Wultsch has a strong background in database engineering, with expertise in MySQL administration and management, as well as experience in web development. Rob is skilled in scripting and programming languages such as Python and Go.

Rob Wultsch attended Arizona State University from 2002 to 2005, studying Electrical Engineering. However, they dropped out or experienced some kind of failure. Afterward, Rob's education history shows that they attended Scottsdale Community College, although the specific years, degree, and field of study are unknown.