Rob Honsby
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Honsby is a seasoned full-stack engineer and technical leader with 11 years of experience building high-impact consumer and growth products across companies like OpenAI, Facebook/Instagram, Lyft, Shef, and Indiegogo. He combines hands-on engineering—contributing to open-source projects like the Papercups live chat with both frontend and backend improvements—with product-focused leadership that has driven measurable growth (2.5x signups and 25% referral lift at Shef). Rob has launched major mobile and web experiences (including Instagram Lite and Shef’s React Native app), improved reliability and observability practices, and optimized performance through initiatives like image CDN/webp conversion and tracing. Based in San Francisco, he blends technical depth in performance, experimentation, and full-stack architecture with a proven ability to mentor teams and translate metrics into product decisions. An understated strength is his knack for simplifying complex systems—refactoring providers and UI components to make features easier to maintain and evolve.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (20)
widgets10
typescript10
sup10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
frontend10
su10
react10
api-design9
javascript9
apim9
phoenix-framework9
phoenix-liveview9
apache-phoenix9
api9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
papercups-io/papercups
Apr 2021 - Jun 2021
Open-source live customer chat
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:34 reviews, 33 commits, 20 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Rob contributed significantly to the frontend and backend aspects of the open-source live customer chat application. Their work included implementing new features like user invitation emails and integrating them into the account overview section. The user refactored UI components, such as the conversation button and customer details page, and also added the functionality to view and create customer notes with markdown rendering. They also refactored the conversations provider, optimizing how conversations are stored and handled.
gdpr-compliantherokuphoenix-frameworkelixir-phoenixdrift
rhonsby/rhonsby.github.io
Jan 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 year
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