Robbie Mckinstry
Chief Executive Officer at Wack
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolRobbie Mckinstry is a founder and CEO with 12 years of engineering experience building production-grade systems and developer tools from research prototypes to popular open-source projects. Based in Pittsburgh, he founded Wack, Inc. and previously drove platform work at Pulumi, contributing substantive Go SDK and Node runtime improvements to a repository with over 16k stars. He was the first engineering hire at OtterTune, turning CMU research into a cloud-native product with ML-driven database tuning and a push-button K8s release pipeline. At HashiCorp he translated research into product-ready prototypes, earning a patent and publication along the way, reflecting a rare blend of language/type-theory rigor and practical systems engineering. Comfortable across Go, Rust, and static analysis, he pairs deep interest in type theory with hands-on backend and infra experience. Notably, his OSS contributions include code-generation fixes and tracing instrumentation that improve real-world developer workflows.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Pittsburgh
English
Stackoverflow
3reputation
198reached
0answers
1question
Github Skills (17)
go10
aac10
infrastructure-as-code10
git9
opentelemetry8
nodejs8
cicd7
rust6
azure6
borrowing6
borrow-checker6
aws6
microsoft-azure6
cloud-computing6
typescript4
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
pulumi/pulumi
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language 🚀
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:305 reviews, 107 commits, 96 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Robbie primarily contributed to the Go SDK, focusing on enhancements and bug fixes related to code generation and package management within the Pulumi ecosystem. Their work included supporting nested git project paths, adding component resource warnings, and addressing code generation issues. They also implemented improvements for the Node.js runtime with tracing instrumentation via Zipkin and gRPC instrumentation. Furthermore, the user addressed the creation of the stack by integrating team-based authorization.
gcppythonfsharpserverlessgo
RobbieMcKinstry/deliverable_2
May 2020 - Feb 2023
For Bill Laboon's Software Testing class (CS 1699) at the University of Pittsburgh
Contributions:4 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
testingbillpittsburghsoftware-testing
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.