Robbie is a hands-on CTO and senior backend engineer with deep experience in Go, AWS, and modern cloud architecture. He has recently built rapid, AI-powered infrastructure across UpStack, AirTalent, and Talia.ai, combining strong engineering leadership with fast execution and practical problem-solving.
• 💻 20+ years building scalable backend systems, secure APIs, and cloud services • 🚀 Led major platform builds for UpStack, including core backend and DevOps • 🧩 Built AirTalent’s full infrastructure using Go, AWS, and rapid dev tooling • 🤖 Developed Talia.ai backend including AI workflows and video-processing pipelines • ⚙️ Expert in CI/CD, AWS, serverless, microservices, and cloud-native patterns • ⚡ Skilled in Lovable, Cursor, and AI-assisted engineering for fast delivery
Led backend development for core UpStack systems including authentication, internal tools, and automation.
Designed cloud infrastructure, DevOps processes, and CI/CD pipelines powering the global engineering network.
Supported multiple client projects with architecture guidance, modernization, and AWS deployment expertise.
Talia.ai
Technical Lead & Backend Architect
2025 - Present
New York, United States of America
Built the backend for an AI interviewer for engineers, including secure APIs and core platform logic.
Designed video-processing and evaluation pipelines using Go, Gemini API, and serverless AWS components.
Rapidly shipped features using Lovable, Cursor, and AI-assisted development across the entire backend.
AirTalent
Platform Architect & Senior Backend Engineer
2024 - Present (1 year)
New York, United States of America
Created the full platform backend with Go, AWS, and modern cloud-native services.
Used Lovable and Cursor to build internal tools, dashboards, and workflows at high speed.
Implemented authentication, microservices, CI/CD pipelines, and automation to support talent operations.
Freelance
Freelance Mobile and Web Developer
2013 - 2014 (1 year)
Constanta, Romania
Efficiently developed and maintained different applications/solutions for mobile and web projects.
Offered guidance and technical expertise for the design, execution and delivery of exploratory concepts, rapid prototypes, pilot solutions and documentation on different web and mobile solutions for clients.
Utilized best practices and identified bug fixes or enhancements for various mobile, native, and web applications.
Braincache Ltd
Web Developer/System Admin
2008 - 2013 (5 years)
Limassol, Cyprus
Worked on the development of an in-house CMS that was used to easily put together websites for clients of the company.
Installed and maintained the company’s hosting servers using the LAMP Stack and optimized the MySQL queries and databases for faster access.
Developed, updated and maintained all the websites and side projects of the company's clients.
Freelance
Web Developer
2007 - 2008 (1 year)
Constanta, Romania
Successfully architected, designed and implemented innovative solutions on different web applications for clients.
Provided technical guidance for troubleshooting complex technical issues and enhance the quality of solutions through adherence to technical best practices on all projects.
Built new functionalities into different web applications and supported performance testing on projects.
SC Cirquest SRL
Web Designer/Developer/SysAdmin
2005 - 2007 (2 years)
Constanta, Romania
Efficiently designed, developed and maintained new and existing websites for clients of the company.
Actively participated in collaborative software requirements gathering, design, testing, and planning reviews.
Successfully addressed bug fixes for deployed software solutions.
CompuFormatix Inc
Remote SysAdmin
2005 - 2005
Los Angeles, United States of America
Efficiently managed the 40-server farm operated by the company.
Monitored the performance of the farm, fixed corrupted MySQL tables.
Handled installations, upgrades, configurations and patches to servers within the farm.
SC Cirquest SRL
Web Designer/Developer/SysAdmin
2004 - 2005 (1 year)
Constanta, Romania
Designed, developed and maintained new and existing websites for clients.
Provided daily oversight on assigned systems by establishing and managing different application accounts, privileges and resources for clients.
Provided technical support for different web solutions and applications.
Developed the Upstack CRM from scratch. Built new features for the Account department, Talent department and Developers department. Started the platform in PHP a few years back and slowly transitioned it to GoLang on the back-end and React/Vue.JS on the front-end.
Developed the back-end of the Linechecker application. Used PHP as the main tech stack. Engineered the geofence feature on the project to see how big the line was for a venue.
Tappy Plane is a small, entertaining, Android mobile game created using Unity (C#) and a small back-end for keeping high-score using GoLang. Tappy Plane is not released yet to the Google Play store since more functionalities are being added to the base game.
Managed mobile backend development using AWS and Golang. The project attained easy scalability using AWS Lambda in relation to the queuing of services so live communication between millions of users goes on uninterrupted.
The API is supported by a state-of-the-art test suite that Go brings into the mix and the ease of development of the Gin framework for Go.
Education
Complete C# Unity Developer 2D: Learn to Code Making Games
