Rob Fonseca
Senior Software Development Engineer at Zillow
Newtown, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolRob Fonseca is a Senior Software Development Engineer with a decade of experience evolving from graphic designer to trusted technical leader, currently shaping media and customer models at Zillow. He blends full-stack PHP/Laravel and modern JS expertise with systems and DevOps experience—evidenced by contributions to Docker-based tooling (tighten/takeout) and production integrations that cut media editing time and contractor costs. Rob has led cross-team architecture and migration efforts at Pfizer and enterprise projects that improved search accuracy, performance, and content workflow automation. He mentors teams, drives measurable velocity and cost savings, and pairs a designer’s eye with pragmatic engineering to simplify complex media systems. Based in Newtown, CT, he consistently turns operational pain points into maintainable, scalable solutions.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Graphic Design, Bachelor of Arts, Graphic Design at Western Connecticut State University
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Github Skills (13)
docker10
laravel10
dockers10
couchbase9
opensearch9
laravel-blade9
database-administration9
couchdb9
mysql8
laravel-artisan6
php6
transaction6
eloquent6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tighten/takeout
Sep 2020 - Dec 2022
Docker-based development-only dependency manager. macOS, Linux, and WSL2-only and installs via PHP's Composer... for now.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 2 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Rob primarily contributed to the project by adding and modifying Docker-based services, including Minio, CouchDB, OpenSearch, and Couchbase. They configured the Docker run templates and service definitions. The user also addressed code quality through bug fixes and refactoring, as evidenced by the commit on Couchbase related to fixing tags tests.
dependency-managerdockerlinuxmacosphp
luisdalmolin/laravel-mandrill-driver
Mar 2020 - May 2021
Mandrill mail driver for Laravel
Contributions:4 releases, 5 reviews, 17 commits in 1 year 2 months
driverlaravel
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