Rob Kilby
Principal Software Engineer at Sage
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorRob Kilby is a Principal Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building high-throughput, full-stack web systems and leading technical teams at Sage. He began as a back-end specialist and now blends expertise across Ruby/Rails, Java, Python, and modern front-end stacks (Angular, ES6, responsive CSS) to deliver end-to-end products. Rob has designed and operated large distributed systems—most notably a telematics platform ingesting billions of daily data points using RabbitMQ, MySQL clusters and multi-threaded Rubinius daemons for real-time analysis. He pairs hands-on coding with architecture and stakeholder-facing specification work, having repeatedly rebuilt legacy portals into scalable Rails applications. Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, he currently shapes cloud-native small business products and brings mid-level sysadmin skills that help bridge development and operations.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (32)
sage10
rails-gem10
component-library10
ui-components9
react9
hound9
database8
compass8
rails8
integrate7
ruby7
psych7
activerecord6
asset-pipeline6
checker6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Sage/s1_linter_config
Jun 2017 - Oct 2024
Contributions:4 reviews, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 7 years 4 months
code-styleruby
robkilby/dotfiles
May 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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