Rob Smith
Director Of Engineering, New Business at OpenTable
Walnut Creek, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Smith is a seasoned engineering leader with over two decades of experience building revenue-driving platforms and marketplaces, currently directing New Business engineering at OpenTable to unlock a $60M+ revenue opportunity. He has repeatedly transitioned teams from MVP to scale—leading payments, dynamic pricing, promoted inventory, and diner-facing web experiences—while managing multi-disciplinary engineering groups and managers. Hands-on with backend and distributed systems across Java, C#, event-driven architectures and modern front-end stacks, he blends product-focused execution with DevOps practices to ship frequently and iterate rapidly. His background spans fintech and hedge-fund trading systems through to global SOA projects, giving him a rare mix of low-latency systems thinking and marketplace product intuition. Based in Walnut Creek, CA, he pairs technical depth with a knack for turning cross-functional collaboration into measurable new revenue streams.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Biochemistry and Biological Chemistry, B.Sc. Biochemistry and Biological Chemistry at University of NottinghamMaster of Science - MS Distributed Computing Systems, Master of Science - MS Distributed Computing Systems at University of Greenwich
French
Github Skills (16)
aggregates6
bus6
router4
java4
reminder3
in-memory3
message-bus2
on-demand1
virtual-machine1
vmware1
docker1
vagrant1
parallels1
virtualbox1
daemon1
Github contributions (5)
yreynhout/JESA
May 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:36 commits, 4 PRs, 27 pushes in 2 months
event-sourcedjavaaggregates
rmacdonaldsmith/MiniVan
Jun 2014 - Jan 2016
Contributions:33 commits, 5 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 6 months
memorymessage-busbusin-processrouter
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