Kade Robertson
Principal Software Developer at Mappedin
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolKade Robertson is a Principal Software Developer with 11 years of experience, currently leading backend and platform efforts at Mappedin from Old Toronto. He began as a self-taught Visual Basic developer and has since built deep, practical expertise across C#, JavaScript, and Python while working routinely with MongoDB, Redis and IBM DB2. Progressing through roles from developer to principal within the same company, he blends hands-on coding with architectural leadership and team mentorship. Kade is an active open-source contributor—his improvements to the markovify library show a focus on robustness, test coverage, and configurable behavior in text-generation tooling. He has a University of Waterloo computer science background and a penchant for pragmatic solutions that make complex systems easier to reason about. Colleagues describe him as a steady technical steward who moves between frontend and backend concerns with equal fluency.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS), Computer Science at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (15)
regular-expression10
nlp10
markov-chain10
python10
unit-testing9
documentation8
racket6
hex6
il6
db26
db2luw6
compiler-errors6
ilasm6
compiler-construction6
exe6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
jsvine/markovify
Feb 2018 - Feb 2019
A simple, extensible Markov chain generator.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Kade primarily focused on improving the functionality and robustness of the Markovify library. Their contributions involved modifying the `Text` class, including refactoring the handling of sentence validation and introducing the ability to disable well-formed sentence checks. They also addressed documentation gaps and enhanced the test suite to improve code coverage. These changes aimed to provide more flexibility and control over the text generation process within the library.
pythonmarkov-chain-generatorchainmarkov-chainextensible
kade-robertson/universities
Jan 2018 - Oct 2020
Python package to search for basic university information.
Contributions:5 releases, 27 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 9 months
python-packagepythonmultiprocessingpython-requests
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