Rob Johnson is an accomplished software professional with years of experience working in large organizations such as Collibra and Cloudera. He has a passion for coaching technical people to develop their skills and become well-rounded professionals. His areas of expertise include software and data architecture, problem-solving, coaching, team building, Java programming, customer service, computer networking, technical troubleshooting, and database query optimization.

Rob holds an MS in Computer Science Distributed Systems from DePaul University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University Calumet. He has worked in various roles such as Senior Director Of Engineering at Collibra, Director of Data Science and Data Engineering at Cloudera, Director of Systems Engineering, Central at Cloudera, Sales Engineer at Cloudera, and more. He has also worked as a Consultant and Solutions Architect at Composite Software and as a Supervisory Engineer at Peoples Energy.

Rob's biggest strength is helping teams align with corporate strategy to deliver value in their work. He enjoys communicating between people of different technical skills and translating complex technological solutions into easy-to-understand explanations for non-technical individuals.