Rob Riddle
Principal Engineer at BitPay
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolRob Riddle is a Principal Engineer in Atlanta with 13 years building robust Node.js back ends and a strong emphasis on security and performance. He has spent the bulk of his career at BitPay, progressing from developer to team lead and now principal, driving architecture, MongoDB tuning, and backwards-compatible platform improvements for payment systems. A hands-on engineer who prefers technical depth over management, he also contributes to notable open-source work on bitcore, improving payment protocol handling and hardening Node.js compatibility. His background spans server/network operations to Android and game-simulation work, giving him breadth across infrastructure, mobile, and blockchain stacks.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Associates Simulation and Game Development, Associates Simulation and Game Development at Wake Technical Community College
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javascript10
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apidoc9
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regular-expression9
documentation8
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socket6
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
bitpay/bitcore
Oct 2015 - Mar 2021
A full stack for bitcoin and blockchain-based applications
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 9 commits, 3 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Rob primarily focused on improving the functionality and robustness of the `bitcore` library. Their contributions included fixing typos in documentation, enhancing the payment protocol, and implementing regex-based validation for query parameters in the API. Furthermore, the user made bug fixes and addressed compatibility issues with dependencies for Node.js 12.x. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the codebase's quality, security, and maintainability.
bitcoinblockchainfull-stack
unusualbob/node-torrent-stream
Feb 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 2 years 1 month
node-jsbittorrentjavascripttorrentnodejs
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