Summary
Rob Caiger is a founder and seasoned full-stack engineer with 12 years building web and backend systems across startups and enterprise clients from Doncaster, UK. He has led engineering teams and shipped end-to-end services using React, Node.js, Java/Spring Boot, PHP and MongoDB, and has hands-on experience deploying services to Kubernetes. As Head of Engineering and Principal Consultant he’s balanced technical leadership with contractor agility, delivering greenfield projects and maintaining legacy platforms. He founded Optimus Digital Consulting to combine consultancy with product-minded execution, drawing on a track record of bespoke frameworks, CMS and mobile integrations. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who moves comfortably between code-level detail and architecture decisions. An atypical strength is his longevity in contract roles, which has given him rapid onboarding skills and a knack for stabilising systems under tight timelines.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
McAuley Catholic High School