Rob Mueller
Director at Fastmail
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Mueller is a seasoned email systems engineer and technology leader with 15+ years building and running professional email and web services from Melbourne. As co-founder and lead developer of FastMail.FM and now Director of Fastmail Pty Ltd, he blends deep protocol expertise (SMTP, IMAP) and low-level C/Perl programming with product-minded web development. His career includes scaling email infrastructure through acquisition by Opera and returning FastMail to independent operation, demonstrating both startup grit and operational stewardship. With dual degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the University of Melbourne, he’s known for pragmatic problem-solving and an unusual focus on the intersection of internet protocols and maintainable service engineering.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
Github Skills (73)
cyrus10
act10
lru10
imap10
mmap9
synchronize9
carddav9
shared-memory9
icalendar9
imap-client8
metaprogramming8
vobject8
perl8
caldav8
calendars8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
robmueller/cache-fastmmap
May 2011 - Sep 2021
Uses an mmap'ed file to act as a shared memory interprocess cache
Contributions:70 commits, 9 PRs, 31 pushes in 10 years 5 months
actmemorylrushared-memorymetaprogramming
robmueller/mail-imaptalk
Feb 2011 - Aug 2017
Perl IMAP client interface with lots of features
Contributions:74 commits, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 6 years 7 months
imap-clientemailperlimap
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