Curt Robords

Senior Capacity Planning Engineer at Cloudflare

I have years of experience across senior level tech roles, including Senior TPM, senior network and CDN capacity engineer and planner, with a strong interest in using data science and building software to automate manual work, to enhance strategic planning and enable accurate long-term forecasting.

📍 Rochester, New York, United States (Remote)

Professional Experience

Senior Capacity Planning Engineer

Cloudflare • Dec 2023 - Present

Senior Technical Program Manager

Amazon Web Services (AWS) • Feb 2019 - Dec 2023
  • Managed the design, launch, and roadmap for capacity forecasting and decision analytics systems for AWS's global CDN
  • Designed and built data pipelines using AWS CDK, Lambda, Glue Crawlers, and Athena
  • Built a Jupyter notebook-based environment for data analysis
  • Led strategic initiatives saving CloudFront over $1.2M/month

Senior Planner - Backbone

Level 3 Communications • May 2014 - Sep 2017
  • Planned and forecasted demand on IP and IPVPN backbones using R, SQL, and Python
  • Developed strategic plans and budgets for network growth and efficiency
  • Led network integration efforts between acquired companies

Skills & Technologies

Python
R
SQL
AWS Services
Data Analysis
Capacity Planning
Network Engineering
Technical Leadership
Strategic Planning