Rob Cole
Staff Engineer at The Business Factory
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRob Cole is a product-oriented Staff Engineer and founder with over a decade of experience scaling web and native apps, from launching DeucesCracked—growing to $2M/year and 6,000+ subscribers—to guiding modern platforms at Rosh Review and USEED. He blends hands-on engineering (Rails, React, React Native, Postgres) with leadership in technical strategy, team building, and developer onboarding—cutting new-hire time-to-first-release from two weeks to under an hour. Rob excels at turning MVPs into scalable, multi-product platforms and has led PCI-compliant payments, analytics performance boosts, and architecture modernizations. He mentors obsessively, having taught professional coding privately and through a nonprofit Developer’s Academy. Currently based in Seattle, he’s shipping Micro-SaaS tools for developer onboarding and SMB workflows while building open-source tooling in Crystal/Lucky to deliver high-performance, lower-cost web stacks. His rare mix of founder grit, operational rigor, and ongoing language-level innovation makes him a multiplier for teams expanding product reach and engineering capacity.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English Language and Literature/Letters, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English Language and Literature/Letters at University of Washington
English
Stackoverflow
130reputation
4kreached
7answers
2questions
Github Skills (158)
lucky-framework10
amazon10
api9
ruby-application9
command-line-interface9
amazon-web-services9
aws9
aws-cli9
cli8
database8
rubygems8
data-api8
sneakers8
shim8
ruby7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
the-business-factory/hirobot.app
Apr 2022 - Aug 2023
slack bots for technical communities
Contributions:8 reviews, 102 PRs, 321 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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the-business-factory/slack.cr
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:6 releases, 5 reviews, 55 commits in 10 months
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