Summary
Rob Waller is a Director of Product Engineering with over a decade of hands-on software experience and nearly 20 years in the industry, leading globally distributed teams to build high-scale platforms used by millions of employees. He currently leads a 70-strong team at TELUS Health driving the TELUS Health One platform, blending product-focused engineering, observability, and platform migrations (MongoDB Atlas, Datadog) to improve performance and user outcomes. A TDD advocate and seasoned PHP developer with a history degree, Rob balances technical depth—having created an early anti-bot algorithm for Twitter and released widely used open-source tooling—with people-first leadership that fosters well-being and technical maturity. He has grown and scaled teams through M&A, supported sales and customer success with technical insight, and champions diversity initiatives like Women in Tech.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
2:1 History, 2:1 History at Lancaster University