Summary
Robbie Pallas is a platform lead and seasoned software engineer based in York with over a decade of hands-on experience building scalable, serverless AWS solutions and leading Agile teams. He has a diverse background spanning telecom, games, and broadcast media, and a track record of reducing costs and accelerating delivery through pragmatic automation and iterative feedback loops. Robbie blends deep backend expertise (Node.js, .NET, cloud infra) with product-focused leadership, having moved between technical lead, product owner and platform roles. He is known for mentoring high-performing teams and for shipping robust APIs and developer tooling that speed up business delivery. Notably, his career includes building realtime and game backend systems as well as large-scale video metadata platforms, demonstrating an ability to apply game-dev rigor to media and enterprise systems. He favors clean, maintainable code and rapid experimentation to validate ideas quickly in production.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Software Engineering, BSc Software Engineering at Sheffield Hallam University