Rob Gant
Staff Software Engineer & Technology Leader at GreenieRE Coalition
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Gant is a staff software engineer and technology leader based in Boston with over two decades of experience building and scaling web applications for startups and grant-funded projects. He combines hands-on engineering — from RESTful APIs and ETL pipelines to AWS and Azure infrastructure — with disciplined development practices like strict linting, automated testing, and Infrastructure as Code to enable small teams to move quickly and safely. Rob has led SOC 2 and DoD SBIR compliance efforts, designed scalable data pipelines for financial and regulatory reporting, and helped transition research prototypes into production-grade AI-powered platforms. He mentors and grows teams, having hired and trained engineers across multiple startups while establishing coding standards, documentation, and CI/CD workflows. An active contributor to Homebrew, he also pays attention to small but impactful details in tooling and scripts that improve developer experience and upgradeability.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (22)
scripting10
ruby10
package-manager-tool10
homebrew10
script10
sh10
package-manager10
shell10
colors9
prompt9
angular9
macos9
git8
html6
google-cloud-sdk6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
Homebrew/brew
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
🍺 The Package Manager for Everywhere
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 6 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Rob's commits primarily focus on modifying the `update.sh` script within the Homebrew package manager. The changes involve conditional checks for shallow clones and providing instructions to the user on how to update. These modifications include fixing typos, improving newline formatting, and updating variable names. The user also collaborated with another contributor on updating the script.
package-managerhomebrewrubymacosbrew
rgant/homedir
Feb 2015 - Dec 2022
OS X Home Directory Files
Contributions:311 commits, 253 pushes, 4 branches in 7 years 11 months
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