What language should I learn?
As we're entering 2020, I thought I'd give an overview of some of the more popular programming languages out there, and give some career tips for young developers getting into the industry and...
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ABOUT ME
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I'm a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience across a broad spectrum of technologies. I've worked in a variety of companies ranging from small startups in someone's dining room (there were no garages available) to large scale companies with tens of thousands of employees and billions of users. I have some experience in management and data analysis.
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Joined March 2018
EXPERTISE
10 years experience | 2 endorsements
Built large-scale machine learning pipelines in Tensorflow and Keras for self-driving cars a NVIDIA.
Built crawling and analytics distrib...
Built large-scale machine learning pipelines in Tensorflow and Keras for self-driving cars a NVIDIA.
Built crawling and analytics distributed systems using Python, some statistical analysis systems using Tensorflow and SK-learn. Built large scale data processing systems in Python at YouTube.
8 years experience | 1 endorsement
Built large scale data processing and monitoring systems partially in Go at YouTube, some work on Istio + Apigee using Go.
Built large scale data processing and monitoring systems partially in Go at YouTube, some work on Istio + Apigee using Go.
10 years experience
Used SQL in almost all jobs - either from large scale sharded deployments to a small scale sqlite system.
Used SQL in almost all jobs - either from large scale sharded deployments to a small scale sqlite system.
5 years experience
Built algorithmic trading scripts with Ruby, and I've done a fair number of small sites with Ruby on Rails. These days I frequently use R...
Built algorithmic trading scripts with Ruby, and I've done a fair number of small sites with Ruby on Rails. These days I frequently use Ruby in place of Bash or Perl when I want to do some basic automation work.
4 years experience
Built computer vision modules for embedded systems in self-driving cars at NVIDIA.
Built large scale data warehousing systems at YouTube.
Built computer vision modules for embedded systems in self-driving cars at NVIDIA.
Built large scale data warehousing systems at YouTube.
3 years experience | 1 endorsement
Much of the REST API that I built for sweetiQ was written in Node, and I built a number of stock trading systems using it. See my profile...
Much of the REST API that I built for sweetiQ was written in Node, and I built a number of stock trading systems using it. See my profile at npmjs.org/~robbrit to see a few of the packages there.
2 years experience
Building up a number of web applications and APIs using Django and a number of plugins for it.
Building up a number of web applications and APIs using Django and a number of plugins for it.
REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS
(6 reviews)
Nicole Zhu
August 2020
super helpful
Ann
June 2018
Rob is incredibly patient, kind and professional. If you're starting from the ground up to strengthen your programming language, he will work with you to grow and understand basics. He is great at explaining how a computer reads code and the logic behind programming.
SOCIAL PRESENCE
ruby-trade
An artificial stock market game in Ruby.
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randgen
Node.js package for generating different kinds of random numbers.
JavaScript
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What is Infrastructure?
This post came out of an in-chat discussion I was having with a junior engineer who was asking what the Go language was useful for. He was initially asking me if it worked well for web apps and...
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Testing isn't everything, but it's important
A talk that I've been thinking about for the last little while is one by Gary Bernhardt called Ideology (https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/ideology). I highly recommend that you go watch it...
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EMPLOYMENTS
Senior Director of Technology
WrK Technologies
2019-11-01-2022-03-01
Designed and built a platform for workforce automation and optimization.
Designed and built a platform for workforce automation and optimization.
Python
Django
PostgreSQL
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Python
Django
PostgreSQL
RabbitMQ
Docker
Google Cloud Platform
Kubernetes
Go (Golang)
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Senior Engineer
NVIDIA
2018-08-01-2019-11-01
I built infrastructure and trained computer vision models for self-driving cars.
I built infrastructure and trained computer vision models for self-driving cars.
Python
C++
Docker
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Python
C++
Docker
TensorFlow
Keras
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Software Engineer
Google
2014-11-01-2018-08-01
2017 - 2018 - Apigee, Boulder, CO; Sunnyvale, CA
- designed systems to help scale the Cassandra cluster
- built components into the API p...
2017 - 2018 - Apigee, Boulder, CO; Sunnyvale, CA
- designed systems to help scale the Cassandra cluster
- built components into the API proxy system for more intelligent load balancing and failure recovery
- added analytics and performance improvements to the Istio/Apigee bridge (https://github.com/apigee/istio-mixer-adapter)
2014 - 2017 - YouTube, San Bruno, CA
- designed major parts of a large-scale distributed scheduling and process management system responsible for producing most of the data in YouTube's data warehouse
- as a senior member of the team, mentored several junior software engineers; served as backup team lead when team lead was out for paternity leave or working on other projects
Python
C++
Go (Golang)
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Python
C++
Go (Golang)
Cloud spanner
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PROJECTS
EconerraView Project
2018
This is a preliminary toy project to play around with economic simulation. It will probably end up being part of a game at some point in ...
This is a preliminary toy project to play around with economic simulation. It will probably end up being part of a game at some point in the future.
Go (Golang)
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Go (Golang)
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