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 (64)
interprocess10
imap10
e-mail10
shared-memory10
icalendar9
perl9
imap-client9
caldav8
carddav8
vobject8
synchronize8
calendars7
thunderbird7
tasks7
cli7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
robmueller/cyrus-imapd
Jul 2021 - Feb 2026
Cyrus IMAP is an email, contacts and calendar server
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
cyruscontactscalendaremailimap
robmueller/mail-imaptalk
Feb 2011 - Aug 2017
Perl IMAP client interface with lots of features
Contributions:74 commits, 4 PRs, 8 pushes in 6 years 7 months
imap-clientperl
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