Rob Szumski

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Product leader with a passion for taming technical systems through ambitious strategy balanced with pragmatic execution.

I've led teams building in the cloud infra and security spaces, always building on tip-of-the-spear technologies to unlock new capabilities while removing complexity for developers.

1x founder, 1x exit, Y Combinator W23 alum.

Head of R&D at FOSSA
FOSSA acquired EdgeBit in 2025. I lead a product group focused on bringing new products to market, including EdgeBit's Dependency Autofix tech folded into the FOSSA platform.

FOSSA is a leader in software supply chain security and continually innovates to make developers successful with open source software.
Founder/CEO of EdgeBit
EdgeBit is an AppSec platform that keeps codebases up-to-date by connecting runtime and build-time reachability.

We built EdgeBit SCA prioritized by runtime reachability and Dependency Autofix to automatically fix security issues, identify breaking changes and eliminate risk from dependency updates.
Keynote Speaker
I regularly speak at conferences including two KubeCon keynotes (2018 & 2019) and a Red Hat Summit keynote.

Technical KubeCon sessions include Kubernetes Multi-Cluster Operations and Collecting Metrics for Clusters with 5,000 Namespaces.
Director of Product at Red Hat
I led Product Management for a pillar of OpenShift, Red Hat's container platform, including GitOps (ArgoCD), Pipelines (Tekton), Serverless (Knative), and Service Mesh (Istio).

In 2020, I shepherded the Operator Framework into the CNCF as an incubating project.
Head of Design / PM at CoreOS
I led the CoreOS design team as we launched multiple new products, designed 4 conference spaces, and executed countless branding and web launches.

I transitioned to be the lead product manager of our commercial Kubernetes product Tectonic until our acquisition by Red Hat.
Technical enough to get
my hands dirty
I enjoy understanding infrastructure systems and I have designed many APIs and CLIs with an eye towards reducing technical debt and planning for the future.

Check out my Building an Operator tutorial, my talk on CLI design and thoughts on Serverless with Servers.
Industrial Design at Virginia Tech
I learned design thinking through the industrial design program at Virginia Tech. Physical product design heavily resembles technology:
  1. prototype always,
  2. the customer journey is measured in years
  3. must remain agile as the market changes
My thesis was a redesigned Emergency Communcation Device.
UX Designer at Rackspace
I was part of the core design team for the Rackspace Cloud. I made significant contributions to the entire cloud portfolio, as well as setting the direction for the foundational design strategy.

Rackspace co-founded the OpenStack project during this time and I helped to launch their OpenStack based cloud. This was my first taste of Open Source.

It was fun (and a first for me!) to publish a technical research paper in 2023 on "Enforcing SBOMs through the Linux kernel with eBPF and IMA" (ISBN 9798400702631).

My team and I presented it at the Software Supply Chain Offensive Research and Ecosystem Defenses (SCORED '23) event at ACM's 2023 conference on Computer and Communications Security in Copenhagen.