Summary
Rob Golding-day is a Principal Engineer based in Nottingham with 16 years building and scaling web applications and distributed systems, currently leading technical direction at Zapier. A Python/Django specialist by background, he has progressed through multiple senior roles at Zapier since 2014, blending deep backend craftsmanship with pragmatic system architecture. He’s experienced in AWS-hosted web platforms and operational migrations, having started his career supporting school IT and evolving into a developer and senior web engineer. Known for steady, long-term ownership, Rob often bridges hands-on coding and team coaching to deliver reliable production services. His trajectory shows a pattern of technical depth plus operational responsibility rather than frequent job-hopping, signalling strong institutional knowledge and scalability expertise.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Nottingham