Rob Heath
Software Engineer at Mindgard
Bath, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRob Heath is a software engineer with 11 years' experience building and operating scalable SaaS systems, currently working on AI security at Mindgard after leading the backend Rails team for Bugsnag/SmartBear. He specializes in Ruby and Python, designing APIs, billing, background jobs and observability pipelines, and has deep hands-on experience with MongoDB, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, gRPC, Docker, Redis and RabbitMQ. Rob blends product-focused engineering with mentoring and design ownership, and won internal recognition for measurable impact on performance and RUM features. Unusually for a senior engineer, he also has a PhD and several years of hands-on quantum hardware research, where he developed cryogenic test systems and full-stack software for superconducting single-photon detectors. He maintains side projects like the Flask webapp upload.farm, demonstrating a continued appetite for end-to-end development and tooling.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MPhys BSc, Physics, 2(i), MPhys BSc, Physics, 2(i) at Leeds UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Glasgow
English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese
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Github Skills (29)
android10
player10
qt9
exceptions9
error-reporting9
multithreading9
bugsnag9
gtk9
rack9
webserver8
python8
sinatra8
ruby8
crash8
unhandled-exceptions8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Laukei/pyjanssen
Nov 2018 - Dec 2023
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 issues in 5 years 1 month
Laukei/pyanc350
Feb 2015 - Dec 2018
Python implementation of the C++ header for the attocube ANC350 controller (ANC350lib) plus a more Pythonesque reimagining (PyANC350)
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 3 years 10 months
cpppython
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