Rob Byrne
Senior Software Engineer at Getty Images
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Byrne is a Senior Software Engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building full-stack, production-grade systems that prioritize scalability, reliability, and polished user experiences. He blends deep front-end expertise in TypeScript, React and Styled-Components with back-end work in GraphQL, Ruby on Rails and Rust, and operational know-how on GCP, Docker and Kubernetes. Rob has led cross-functional initiatives at brands like Arc'teryx and Shopify, founded startups (UCdeploy, DuJour) and shipped commercial developer tooling and customer-facing products end-to-end. He favors analytical, lean workflows and domain-driven approaches (CQRS/ES) to turn ambiguous problems into measurable outcomes. Based in Vancouver, he pairs hands-on coding with recruiting, mentoring and product thinking—often stepping beyond a single role to connect people, processes and technology.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Technology: Engineering and Applied Sciences (BTech), Bachelor’s Degree Technology: Engineering and Applied Sciences (BTech) at Memorial University, Newfoundland and Labrador12-Week Startup Launch Program NL 2016, 12-Week Startup Launch Program NL 2016 at Propel ICT Startup AcceleratorDiploma in Software Engineering Technology Software Engineering Technology, Diploma in Software Engineering Technology Software Engineering Technology at College of the North Atlantic
English
Stackoverflow
917reputation
42kreached
5answers
12questions
Github Skills (48)
swift6
create-react-app6
ecmascript6
realm6
angularjs6
data-modeling6
git6
unit-testing6
ios6
backend5
rest-api5
rest5
api5
sendgrid-api5
backend-for-frontend5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
leanrob/rob-byrne-portfolio-site
Apr 2019 - Apr 2020
Rob Byrne portfolio site built in vue
Contributions:40 commits, 4 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year
vue
leanrob/leanrob
Mar 2021 - Apr 2026
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
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