Rob Dimarco
Product & Engineering at Sequoia Capital
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Dimarco is a product-focused engineering leader with 14 years of experience building developer-facing cloud services and tooling, currently leading Product & Engineering at Sequoia Capital after a long tenure driving Firebase’s Build & Platform teams at Google. He’s shipped foundational developer experiences—from the Firebase CLI and deployment systems to hosting, auth, and real-time database tooling—combining hands-on full-stack work with people leadership. Rob’s background as employee #4 at Firebase and contributions to notable open-source projects like firebase-tools and firebase/php-jwt show a strong bias for shipping reliable, scalable developer workflows. Comfortable across front-end UI, backend auth, and deployment systems, he’s adept at turning complex platform requirements into polished, usable products. Based in Cambridge with an ECE degree and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon, he pairs technical depth in embedded and cloud systems with product and business fluency. An understated strength: he often focuses on small infrastructure and UX improvements (e.g., CLI template systems and stream throttling) that disproportionately boost developer productivity.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Business Administration Finance Economics Entrepreneurship, MBA Business Administration Finance Economics Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of BusinessB.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering Embedded Systems, B.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering Embedded Systems at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (33)
authorizations10
javascript10
testing10
css10
user-authentication10
authentication10
user-interface10
phpunit10
php10
front-end-development10
authorization10
jwt10
html10
nodejs10
templating10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
FirebaseExtended/firechat
Jul 2013 - Jul 2018
Real-time Chat powered by Firebase
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Rob appears to be primarily focused on developing the user interface for the Firechat application. The commits show significant changes to `firechat-ui.js` and CSS files, along with modifications to HTML templates, indicating work on UI layout, component integration, and styling. Their contributions include adding functionality for user interaction, tab management, and integrating UI elements, all geared towards enhancing the user experience within the real-time chat environment.
firebase
googleapis/php-jwt
Apr 2015 - Jul 2016
PHP package for JWT
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 35 commits, 33 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Rob primarily contributed to the PHP package, `firebase/php-jwt`, by modifying the test suite script (`run-tests.sh`) to include PHPUnit and other testing configurations. Additionally, the user made several adjustments to the core `JWT.php` file, specifically within the decode and verify methods, demonstrating a focus on the authentication and authorization logic of the library. Moreover, the user updated the test cases to accommodate the changes.
jwtphp
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