Rob Williamson is a Principal Software Engineer based in Berlin with 14 years of experience designing and delivering scalable, cloud-native systems across logistics, IoT, and mapping domains. At Zalando he leads teams building microservices and event-sourced solutions that automated manual processes, decommissioned risky legacy systems, and are now improving sales forecasts and reducing carbon footprint in supply chain operations. His background spans full-stack development, CI/CD and infrastructure (Terraform, Ansible), plus cloud architecture for tracking services at HERE and metric computation engines at Alloy. Comfortable with embedded-to-cloud stacks, he brings practical expertise in optimizing distributed systems for scalability and observability. Known for mentoring and growing technical teams, he combines hands-on engineering with a track record of turning complex operational problems into automated, measurable outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Certificate Computing, Postgraduate Certificate Computing at The Open University
BEng Engineering, BEng Engineering at University of Warwick
Contributions:817 commits, 24 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 6 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.
Request Free Trial
Rob Williamson - Principal Software Engineer at Zalando