Rob Harrigan
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Gopuff
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Harrigan is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 12+ years building high-throughput web applications and ad-serving platforms, currently shaping backend architecture and delivery at Gopuff. He specializes in object-oriented development on Linux with deep Python expertise, and a history with PHP and Perl, complemented by hands-on experience with Redis, Memcached, Nginx and PHP FastCGI for scale. Rob has operated extensively on AWS (EC2, S3, SQS, EMR, CloudSearch, CloudFront) and brings practical knowledge of Node.js, Heroku and occasional Android work. He has led engineering teams, designed core systems and run hiring and architecture efforts while still contributing code and reviews. His background in ad tech—driving inventory, bidding and REST APIs—combined with platform and ops experience gives him a rare full-stack-to-infra perspective. Based in New Jersey, he pairs pragmatic system design with a developer-first leadership style that prioritizes reliability under high demand.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Rowan University
Github Skills (36)
leiningen10
ftp-client10
spotify-api10
sonos10
ftps9
spotify9
music9
command-line-utility8
ftp8
nodejs8
slack7
timestamp6
cookiecutter6
python6
flask5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
codebynumbers/ftpretty
Feb 2014 - Jun 2021
A wrapper for simple FTP operations: get, put, list etc.
Contributions:3 reviews, 43 commits, 14 PRs in 7 years 5 months
ftpftpsleiningenftp-client
codebynumbers/Flask-Foundation
Sep 2014 - Apr 2017
Contributions:29 commits, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 2 years 7 months
flaskpythonenhancementsfoundation
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