Rob Banagale
Independent Consultant - Technology Services at G2i Inc.
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolRob Banagale is an experienced backend and data engineer with 11 years building production systems, APIs, and data pipelines across startups and regulated SaaS environments. He’s shipped end-to-end features from authentication and multi-tenant architectures to medallion-style ETL and LLM-augmented extraction workflows, reducing onboarding friction and production costs. As a founder and early engineer, he’s taken products from prototype to acquisition or scale, and he combines hands-on Python/Django expertise with infrastructure skills in AWS, Docker, and Terraform. Rob contributes to open-source tooling (notably maintaining a Django address model) and has a track record of creating developer productivity tools and AI-powered automation for teams. Based in Portland, he’s now consulting while seeking senior backend or data engineering roles at stable, product-focused companies where API design, data modeling, and production AI integration are central.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Master of Business Administration (MBA), Entrepreneurship, Leadership at Babson F.W. Olin Graduate School of BusinessBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at Oregon State University
English
Stackoverflow
1,746reputation
248kreached
47answers
7questions
django
top-5%
Github Skills (13)
python10
django10
google-maps-api9
software-packaging7
digitalocean6
django-allauth6
alpine-linux6
pycharm6
django-rest-framework6
django-views6
postgresql6
pgdump6
signal6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
furious-luke/django-address
Apr 2020 - May 2021
A Django address model and field. Addresses may be specified by address components or by performing an automatic Google Maps lookup.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 5 reviews, 62 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Rob primarily contributed to the Django-based address application, focusing on improvements to the example site, bug fixes, and version updates. Their work included enhancing the example site to handle missing API keys and provide better feedback, as well as addressing a widget display issue. They also refactored the codebase by removing Python 2 compatibility and addressing compatibility issues within Django 3.0. Furthermore, the user was involved in version bumping and package compatibility updates, demonstrating an ability to maintain and improve the project over time.
pythondjangoaddressaddressesfield
banagale/bossbot-action
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Github Action that looks for unwanted email content in issue comments and removes it.
Contributions:4 releases, 53 commits, 53 pushes in 6 days
emailshieldsprobotcommentsproductivity-tools
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