Rob Skillington

CEO

New York, New York, United States17 yrs 1 mo experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in scalable monitoring and observability solutions.
  • Led development of M3DB, a high-performance database.
  • Co-founded Chronosphere, enhancing cloud-native monitoring.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on monitoring and observability technologies.

Contact

Skills

Core Skills

Software EngineeringDatabase Management

Other Skills

M3DBmetrics infrastructuredistributed TSDBopen sourceanomaly detectionSoftware DesignWeb ApplicationsPythonSubversionjQueryJavaC#CNode.jsMobile Applications

About

Helping others with their journey to deliver transformative scalable monitoring and observability functions to support the way they build, rollout and operate some of the most difficult services to operate.

Experience

17 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
2 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
4 mos
Current Experience

Palo alto networks

VP, Fellow

Jan 2026Present · 4 mos

Chronosphere

Co-Founder/CTO (acquired by Palo Alto Networks)

Jun 2019Jan 2026 · 6 yrs 7 mos

  • Chronosphere is on a mission to redefine monitoring for the cloud-native world by providing the world’s most scalable, reliable and cost efficient monitoring platform.

Uber

2 roles

Staff Software Engineer

Feb 2017Jun 2019 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Creator of M3DB and technical lead for the metrics infrastructure platform M3. The platform collects tens of millions of datapoints per second per region and serves realtime alerts, dashboards, anomaly detection, application and server system performance insights. I began M3DB development with a small team, we wrote the distributed TSDB in open source and you can find the development history there. M3DB and the various M3 open source components were based on our hands on experience and research with distributed column storage DBs and clustered reverse indexes we were using at the time for metrics timeseries storage.
M3DBmetrics infrastructuredistributed TSDBopen sourceanomaly detectionSoftware Engineering+1

Engineering Lead

Aug 2014Jan 2017 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Joined as an engineer on marketplace helping rebuild dispatch services that were the backend for the lifecycle of a trip to accommodate the next level of scale. Then moved on to work on the infrastructure that made developing and operating those services possible at scale reliably (chaos engineering infrastructure, then metrics infrastructure).

Groupon

Engineering Lead

Jun 2013Aug 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Groupon Point of Sale, Breadcrumb Pro (now Upserve) and real-time sync infrastructure.

Omny studio

Founding Engineer

Nov 2012May 2013 · 6 mos · Melbourne, Australia

Microsoft

2 roles

Engineer Office 365 Directory Platform

Promoted

Sep 2011Nov 2012 · 1 yr 2 mos · Redmond, WA

  • Office 365, Azure Active Directory.

Intern

Nov 2010Feb 2011 · 3 mos · Redmond, Washington, United States

  • Office 365, Identity Service.

University of melbourne

Academic Tutor

Feb 2010Jun 2010 · 4 mos · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

  • Tutorials, labs.

Jb interactive

Developer

Jan 2008Jan 2010 · 2 yrs · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

  • Product listings, search and analytics for web properties.

Education

University of Melbourne

Bachelor of Engineering with Honours — Software

Jan 2006Jan 2011

Stackforce found 100+ more professionals with Software Engineering & Database Management

Explore similar profiles based on matching skills and experience