Rob Bassani
Senior Engineering Manager at Vancity
Old Toronto, Ontario, United States
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Top SchoolRob Bassani is a seasoned engineering leader based in Toronto with 15+ years of experience delivering enterprise-scale digital products across insurance and financial services. As Director of Engineering at Manulife (after leading TD’s MySpend engineering team), he blends systems architecture, full-stack delivery, and exponential-thinking to turn complex business problems into market-ready solutions. He’s known for cultivating high-performing, learning-focused engineering cultures, mentoring technical leaders, and driving agile transformation across cross-functional programs. With early roots at Research In Motion and formal training in computing from McMaster and Mohawk, he brings deep telecom and banking systems experience to digital product innovation. Notably, he pairs hands-on development instincts with a strategic lens—certified in ExO Foundations—to align cutting-edge technology choices with measurable business outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computing and Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computing and Information Technology at McMaster UniversityComputer Science Software Eng., Computer Science Software Eng. at Mohawk College
English, Italian
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Github Skills (123)
chat10
callkit10
keyboard9
debian9
testing9
passportjs9
react-native9
scrollview9
facebook9
litecoin9
voip9
textinput9
webrtc9
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
socialcode-rob1/react-native-jitsimeet-custom
May 2022 - Nov 2022
React Native Wrapper for Jitsi Meet SDK
Contributions:10 releases, 6 reviews, 43 commits in 5 months
jitsi-meetreact-native
socialcode-rob1/Kijiji-Repost-Headless
May 2019 - Apr 2022
Repost / Post Kijiji ads with Python
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 11 months
repostkijijipythonads
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