David Robertus
Performance Testing Lead at Empower
Longmont, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Robertus is a performance-focused engineering leader with 12 years of experience optimizing large-scale systems and testing practices across fintech, healthcare, and media. Currently leading Performance Testing at Empower Retirement, he specializes in wringing out runtime efficiency, streamlining workflows, and building resilient test infrastructure. Previously he scaled quality engineering at Shutterstock—managing 70+ people and driving SOX-compliant testing—and modernized in-house frameworks and EMR simulators as a Staff Engineer at DexCare. His hands-on background ranges from replacing legacy E2E suites with faster integration tests to architecting multi-tenant AMQP services that cut runtimes by an order of magnitude. Based in Longmont, Colorado, he blends a practical engineering pedigree with a geography BA from UT Austin, a detail that surfaces in his methodical, systems-level approach to performance problems. David is notable for translating deep technical work into measurable business outcomes—faster runtimes, higher scalability, and more maintainable test platforms.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Geography, Geography and Economics, Geography, Geography and Economics at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (12)
nightwatch9
selenium-webdriver9
api8
nodejs8
testing8
selenium8
webdriver7
selenium-server7
javascript7
w3c6
webdriverio5
curl1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
drobertus/infraviewer
Jan 2014 - Sep 2016
Contributions:80 commits, 4 pushes in 2 years 8 months
drobertus/continuum
Feb 2015 - Jun 2019
Contributions:22 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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