Olivier Robert
Engineering Manager at Sonar
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Top SchoolOlivier Robert is an engineering manager and hands-on software leader with 31 years of experience building and scaling multinational teams across startups, scale-ups and enterprises, now based in Geneva. He co-founded and grew Nimble from a two-person consultancy to a 70+ cross-functional organization, establishing career ladders, recruitment processes, and engineering playbooks that drove the company’s reputation for quality in SEA. Equally comfortable in code and strategy, he spends 20–25% of his week coding, performs daily code reviews, and can independently build and deploy full web products across backend, frontend, testing and infrastructure. His background includes founding-stage product architecture at Pomelo and solving large-scale performance and security challenges at Lazada, with sustained involvement in the Ruby ecosystem (notably contributing to savon’s SOAP parsing). A community-minded technologist, he co-organizes Bangkok.rb meetups and RubyConf TH while teaching web development as a visiting lecturer. Pragmatic, cryptography- and UNIX-curious, he blends deep technical craftsmanship with disciplined people and delivery management.
31 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master School of management - International Business, Master School of management - International Business at Asian Institute of TechnologyMaster International Business, Master International Business at SKEMA Business School
French, English, Thai
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Github Skills (5)
ruby10
rspec10
soap-client10
soap10
xml-parsing9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
savonrb/savon
Mar 2013 - Mar 2013
Heavy metal SOAP client
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Olivier focused on enhancing the functionality of the SOAP client. They added the `servicename` attribute and method to the `Wasabi::Parser` and `Savon::Client` classes. This involved creating methods to parse the service name from the WSDL, fixing related XPath expressions, and hooking up the `servicename` into `Wasabi::Document`. The user also added specs to support the added functionality.
soapsoap-clientruby
keltia/atlas-rs
Oct 2021 - Nov 2025
Contributions:96 pushes, 4 branches, 2 tags in 4 years 1 month
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