Bob Sakson
Principal Engineer at Paylocity
Plano, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolBob Sakson is a Principal Engineer with over 25 years in software across consulting, SaaS, and enterprise roles, currently leading engagement platform and collaboration efforts at Paylocity from Plano, Texas. He designs and delivers high-throughput .NET Core and .NET Framework APIs, SPAs, and mobile apps, with hands-on expertise in SignalR, messaging (SQS, RabbitMQ), caching (Redis, in-memory), and resilient microservice patterns. Bob has a track record of modernizing legacy systems—migrating heavy stored-procedure logic into managed services and shifting Web Forms into MVC/SPAs—to cut costs and improve performance at scale. He pairs deep technical craftsmanship with operational ownership, building CI/CD, ARM infrastructure, observability dashboards, and running office hours to unblock teams. A pragmatic architect and mentor, he also drove a mainframe decommissioning that saved millions, showing a talent for translating business constraints into durable technical solutions.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BBA MIS, BBA MIS at Texas A&M UniversityEisenhower High School
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Github Skills (19)
nodejs7
javascript7
react7
cli7
angular7
monorepo6
extensible6
sequelizejs6
visual-studio6
typescript6
nextjs6
clr6
workspaces5
build-system5
cypress4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bobsakson/GrillThermometer
Jun 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 8 months
bobsakson/Thermometer
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:22 pushes, 2 branches, 2 issues in 1 month
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