Robert Pratte

Manager

Round Rock, Texas, United States

About

Specialties: - Agile Coaching, Life Coaching, NLP - Scrum and Agile Practice / Coaching - Testing and Quality Assurance - Object Oriented Design - Python - Perl - Unix - Static Code Analysis - Process training/mentoring and documentation - technical interviewing (All content shared is my own opinion and not representative of my employer)

Experience

  • Owner at RTB Engineering
    Apr 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 3 mos

    Private music lessons. Stringed instrument setup and repair. Tube amplifier builds and repair. Design and construction of custom guitar pedals, guitars and ukuleles, and amplifiers.

  • Engineering Manager - Shared Engineering Infrastructure at Riverbed Technology
    Oct 2024 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos

    Manage multiple distributed teams: - R & D Labs including Data Center and Cloud - Infrastructure Architecture - Engineering Tools - Builds and Support - India, Romania, and US Seat on Cloud Governance and Artificial Intelligence Usage committees

  • Managing Member at Pathways2Coaching, LLC
    Mar 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 4 mos

    Managing member of Pathways2Coaching, LLC which specializes in Agile Coaching and Technical Screening.

  • Instructor at The Guitar Center Company
    Aug 2022 - Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos

    Music instructor for music theory, guitar, bass, mandolin, ukulele and banjo. Some vocal, keys, etc. at introductory level.

  • Riverbed Technology (7 yrs)
    • Engineering Resources Lead
      May 2021 - Oct 2021 · 6 mos

      Lead for Engineering Resources (Internal R&D) Scrum Teams, crossing infrastructure automation, architecture, and lab. Key Skills - Languages: Python, SQL, Bash scripting - Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, MacOS - Platforms: On premise physicals, KVM, VMWare ESXi, Hyper-V, Openstack, Docker, AWS, Azure - Other: Routers, switches, TCP/IP networking, Cloud, Agile Methodologies Responsibilities - Responsible for leading projects and internal products from conception to delivery - Responsible for architecting solutions and maintaining internal product architectural integrity using industry best practices - Responsible for running Agile ceremonies - Responsible for understanding customer needs, getting feedback, and scoping and prioritizing that work - Responsible for consolidating 5+ labs hosting nearly 10k resources in order to save power, footprint, and centralize support - Responsible for identifying unused and underutilized resources and removing them and/or virtualizing them

    • Agile Coach
      Oct 2020 - Oct 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

    • Member of Technical Staff and Scrum Master
      Nov 2014 - May 2021 · 6 yrs 7 mos

      Lead/Developer on Solutions Automation Architecture Team Scrum Master for Automation Architecture Team - design and development building automation libraries for external and internal customers - design architecture, develop reference implementations, and mentor teams as they build automation - educate users regarding best practices and new technologies - organize sprint artifacts, meetings for team moving to Agile - organize brown-bag seminars, hack day events, innovation and IP brainstorm sessions for our office Key Technologies Used: - languages: python, c# - data formats: json, yaml, xml - tools and frameworks: Openstack, heat, Docker, Jenkins, TestRail, sphinx, readthedocs, pytest, pip, devpi, kvm, libvirt, virtualenv, ELK, salt, robot framework, Jira, Bugzilla, iceScrum,