Rob Newman
Product Management Lead at Seqera
Nevada City, California, United States
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Top SchoolRob Newman is a product and engineering leader with 20+ years of experience who currently leads Product Management at Seqera, focusing on data-driven platform strategy for bioinformatics workflows. He blends deep technical fluency—from data engineering, MLOps and interactive visualizations (Vega/Altair/D3) to cloud infrastructure—with senior-scale product and go-to-market responsibilities. Rob has held CTO and Director-level roles where he scaled distributed engineering teams, drove SOC-2 compliance and led large enterprise onboarding, demonstrating a rare ability to translate C-level priorities into concrete engineering roadmaps. A PhD-trained scientist with a decade of seismology software experience, he brings an analytical, evidence-driven approach and comfort with complex scientific data pipelines. He’s also an active developer and OSS contributor, having made 350+ GitHub contributions in recent years and authored technical content that raised product visibility. Colocated between Nevada City and Barcelona engagements, he thrives in diverse, distributed teams and is known for compassionate leadership and technical advocacy.
16 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Geological Sciences, Mathematics, BSc, Geological Sciences, Mathematics at University of LeedsPhD, Structural & Metamorphic Geology, PhD, Structural & Metamorphic Geology at James Cook University
French, Swedish, Spanish
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Github Skills (87)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
robnewman/s3-dynamodb-lambda
Oct 2018 - Jun 2024
Contributions:7 PRs, 7 pushes, 8 branches in 5 years 8 months
robnewman/etl-airflow-s3
Jan 2019 - Dec 2022
ETL of newspaper article keywords using Apache Airflow, Newspaper3k, Quilt T4 and AWS S3
Contributions:44 commits, 58 PRs, 72 pushes in 3 years 11 months
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