Robbie Coleman
Senior Engineer II at CrowdStrike
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolRobbie Coleman is a Senior Engineer II based in Los Angeles with 15 years of hands-on experience building reliable APIs and backend systems, currently focused on Go at CrowdStrike to help customers stop breaches. He excels at joining collaborative teams and quickly filling the gaps where infrastructure, APIs, or delivery need the most help—favoring pragmatic approaches that avoid future technical debt. His background spans startups and large platforms (Myspace, Gravity.com, Rival) and includes leadership roles and deep backend optimizations, such as performance-focused contributions to the open-source GravityLabs/goose content extractor. Robbie enjoys the iterative problem-solving rhythm of team engineering—from idea brainstorming through release and postmortem—and prefers shared ownership over solo heroics. He pairs a business-and-IT academic foundation with a career that began in operations analytics, giving him an uncommon blend of system-level thinking and operational empathy. Colleagues value his ability to integrate quickly and reduce friction during high-stakes ship cycles.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Business / IT, Bachelor of Science, Business / IT at University of PhoenixMaster of Science, Information Technology, Master of Science, Information Technology at American InterContinental University
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Github Skills (8)
text-manipulation10
regular-expression10
javas10
java10
optimization9
performance-optimization9
optmization9
optimisation9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
GravityLabs/goose
May 2011 - Oct 2012
Html Content / Article Extractor in Scala - open sourced from Gravity Labs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:47 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Robbie focused on optimizing the regex and matcher usages, as well as reducing string creations within the project. They made multiple passes of code changes across various Java files, including the `DefaultDocumentCleaner.java` and `ContentExtractor.java`. These commits also involved refactoring the string replacement and splitting methods.
scala
CrowdStrike/go-restful
Jan 2019 - Sep 2021
package for building REST-style Web Services using Google Go
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 6 branches in 2 years 8 months
gorestwebservice
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