Robert Serafini

About Robert Serafini

There is always a better way of doing something and I love finding it. I passionately believe that quality is built in by every team member and the process and tools can help make the building and testing faster. Faster Test Cycles == More Cycles == Better Quality. I am passionate about incremental approaches and continuous improvement. Agile teams that are always asking how to \'suck less\' can make great things happen!Specialties: Agile teams, Code reviews, code metrics, test automation, performance testing, microservcies, IoT, Java, javascript, C#, Perl, Unix/Linux/OSX, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, REST APIs, Selenium, test driven development, code coverage, git, Ant/NAnt, Ruby on Rails, Rspec, Jira, AWS - EC2, Lambda, Kinesis Stream, Elastic Beanstalk, Redshift, DynamoDB

Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   Kong

   May 2021 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Grow and manage globally distributed teams across North America and Europe. The teams are responsible for the delivery of Kong Gateway OSS and Enterprise, Kuma and Kong Mesh service mesh products, Kong Kubernetes Ingress Controller and the Kong Operator. This is a diverse set of open source and enterprise product offerings likewise covering diverse technologies and customers. These engineering teams interface with globally distributed product managers and international customers.

Education

• Cornell University

  BA, PhD Candidate, Neurobiology

  1984 — 1996

• Cornell University

  Bachelor's degree, Neurobiology and Behavior

Skills

• Software Quality Assurance
• Test Planning
• Automation
• Agile Methodologies
• Test Cases
• Test Automation
• Perl
• Ruby on Rails
• Selenium
• Sql
• Linux
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Testing
• Quality Assurance
• Java
• User Experience
• Software Engineering