Jack Robinson
Server Engineer at lowiro
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolJack Robinson is a Server Engineer with 11 years of hands-on software experience, currently based in Tokyo and working across AWS, TypeScript, React, Terraform and a mix of Python and Clojure. He has led platform redevelopment projects that significantly cut cloud costs by shifting to managed and serverless services, while owning frontend architecture and shared services design. Comfortable across the full stack, Jack excels at turning business requirements into robust, well-tested solutions and mentoring teams—he’s held both technical lead and people/product management responsibilities. His background spans modern web stacks, legacy monolith decomposition, custom auth and MFA systems, and practical DevOps work (Linux, Docker, Terraform). Currently travelling and learning Japanese, he brings a continual-learning mindset and a knack for pragmatic trade-offs that balance speed, quality and operational cost.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Software Engineering, First Class, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Software Engineering, First Class at Victoria University of Wellington
Github Skills (35)
love2d10
defold10
luajit10
lua10
game-development10
game-engine9
2d-game9
lua-library9
layout8
goodies8
shortcuts8
shiny7
glance7
grid-layout6
react5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zombrodo/plan
Feb 2021 - Jan 2022
A super simple layout helper, designed for use with Love2d
Contributions:19 commits, 3 PRs, 19 pushes in 11 months
reactlayoutlayoutsgrid-layout
zombrodo/love
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
LÖVE is an awesome 2D game framework for Lua.
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 3 months
2d-gameluagamedevdefold2d-game-framework
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