Don Roby
Software Engineer at Fitbit
Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolDon Roby is an experienced software engineer with 14 years building web applications and over three decades total in systems, network administration, and even academic mathematics. He specializes in test-driven development and pragmatic engineering with Java, JEE, Ruby on Rails and Scala, and currently contributes to commerce-focused web platforms at Fitbit. His background includes biomedical research tooling at Novartis and the Broad Institute and leadership in education-focused web projects, demonstrating an ability to move between domains quickly. A former math professor with a PhD, he brings rigorous analytical thinking to software design and system reliability—often applying operations-level insights gained from decades of systems administration to production engineering.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Mathematics, BS, Mathematics at University at Albany, SUNY
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Github contributions (2)
droby/expression-parser
Jun 2014 - Jun 2014
Contributions:11 commits in 5 days
cast-org/cast-wicket-modules
Oct 2011 - Apr 2014
Modules extending the Wicket framework for database access, XML content, multimedia, etc.
Contributions:34 commits in 2 years 6 months
database-accesswicket-frameworkxmlsqldatabase
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