Rob Goodberry is a senior software developer at Shopify with 11 years of hands-on experience building automation-first solutions and integrating systems across Salesforce, DevOps, Ruby on Rails, and modern React/TypeScript stacks. Self-taught and driven since building his first HTML page at 13, he rose from customer support roles into engineering by obsessively eliminating repetitive work and sharing those productivity gains with peers. His background as a Salesforce Developer informs pragmatic integrations and backend work, while contributions to the popular open-source game Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead demonstrate C++ game-logic and systems-level problem solving outside his day-to-day stack. A natural mentor who once wanted to be a teacher, he pairs clear communication with technical depth to help colleagues ramp quickly. Based in Kingston, Ontario, he brings a practical, user-focused mindset to building tools that make complex tasks feel effortless.
Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead. A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:9 reviews, 29 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Rob contributed to the game logic by implementing scenario-specific effects and fixing bugs related to fungal effects. They added features to manage zones, including shortcuts for enabling and disabling personal zones. Additionally, the user reworked the behavior of shoggoths related to absorbing items and splitting. The user's work focused on modifying game mechanics and fixing behaviors implemented in C++.
Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead. A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
Contributions:165 pushes, 18 branches in 2 years 11 months
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