Robert is a developer and entrepreneur with 17+ years of hands-on coding experience. Currently he heads up the platform team @ Upstack using Go and Vue.JS. Robert also has solid devops experience using AWS.
Spearheading internal tools development including the Upstack Portal and an awesome Slack bot for keeping track of the company's time sheets.
Develop and implement Upstack’s strategy for using technological resources that aligns with its business goals and esure that the right systems, technology and processes are in place to support Upstack's operations.
Regularly take the initiative in innovation and creativity by learning new things and improving the way things get done at Upstack.
Worked on the development of backend web applications for Upstack's platform using PHP and Laravel Framework.
Efficiently managed the technical implementation of web pages, microsites, and interactive forms on Upstack's platform.
Oversaw compliance with web standards and accessibility requirements, troubleshot and fixed backend issues and maintained clean, documented code standards within Upstack.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Created a time bot for Upstack developers to simplify the tracking process. The bot will ask each working developer daily to log in time for the previous day along with notes for the work done. The bot automatically updates the times and notes on the internal portal where the client can see all these details.
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.
