Rob Cutmore
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRob Cutmore is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of experience building and modernizing production systems, currently contributing as a Software Development Engineer II at Amazon in Seattle. He combines full-stack fluency—C++, C#, Python, Go, and front-end work—with a track record of reducing latency and memory use in real-time 3D mapping and visualization for defense applications. Rob has driven legacy-modernization efforts at a utility company, migrating Python to Python 3, introducing static typing, and automating operational workflows to cut manual tasks. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved the UI of Privacy Badger and strengthened backend auth and group management in the Gophish phishing toolkit, showing both security awareness and usability focus. He pairs a 4.0 MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech with hands-on optimizations such as a thread-safe circular buffer that delivered >99% latency reductions—an example of turning algorithmic insight into measurable product gains.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at SUNY OneontaMaster of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, 4.0, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, 4.0 at Georgia Institute of TechnologyComputer Science, Computer Science at Broome Community College
English, Italian, Japanese
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Github Skills (41)
javascript10
c-language10
game-engine10
back-end-development10
openmv10
rpg10
security10
openms10
go10
cplus10
html10
phishing10
webextension10
cpp10
backend10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
OpenMW/openmw
Jan 2016 - Jul 2017
OpenMW is an open-source open-world RPG game engine that supports playing Morrowind. Main repo and issue tracker can be found here: https://gitlab.com/OpenMW/openmw/
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:43 commits, 19 PRs, 27 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Rob primarily contributed to the OpenMW project by focusing on improving the user interface and enhancing the functionality of the OpenCS editor. They addressed issues related to script editing, including line wrapping, tab width customization, and preventing duplicate pathgrids. They also implemented features like cell marker rendering and the ability to toggle their visibility within the render view, indicating a focus on improving the visual aspects of the editor. Furthermore, they worked on enhancements to the pathgrid creation workflow using DropLineEdit input for cell selection.
game-engineopenmwc-plus-plusrpg-enginetes
EFForg/privacybadger
Dec 2015 - Oct 2016
Privacy Badger is a browser extension that automatically learns to block hidden trackers
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 23 PRs, 43 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Rob primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Privacy Badger browser extension, focusing on the user interface and options page. Their commits included adding a search box to the options page to filter tracking domains, refactoring the options page code, and implementing various UI elements such as toggle switches and tooltips. They also addressed issues related to tooltip display and overall visual appearance of the options page.
browser-extensionprivacyjavascriptwebextensiontracking
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