Rob Sterner
Principal Engineer at Nift
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolRob Sterner is a Principal Engineer with 17 years of experience building full-stack web platforms and leading engineering teams, currently focused on Rails and Hotwire/Turbo-driven UIs. He pairs hands-on development—spanning Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, GraphQL, Svelte/Vue/React—with infrastructure-as-code and cloud automation to deliver pragmatic, scalable systems. Rob has led cross-functional initiatives at companies from GitHub and Shopify to fast-moving startups, shipping features like enterprise SAML, Codespaces integrations, and merchant-facing buy-with-Amazon flows. Known for balancing engineering ideals with business reality, he also mentors teams and improves delivery via automation and architecture simplification. Outside of tech he serves his community as a call firefighter/EMT, a detail that reflects his operational calm under pressure and commitment to service.
17 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Computer Science, Bachelor's Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Github Skills (90)
time-management10
project-management9
nanobox9
octicons9
twilio9
typescript9
time-tracking8
thin8
javascript8
svg8
twilio-api8
ruby8
graphql8
jekyll8
meta8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
goinvo/StaffPlan
Dec 2011 - Nov 2021
Contributions:458 commits, 1 PR, 1 issue in 10 years
time-managementtime-management-toolshours-reportsproject-managementstaff
goinvo/staffplan_redux
Jan 2015 - Nov 2025
Contributions:9 reviews, 442 PRs, 863 pushes in 10 years 11 months
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