Robbie Perlstein
Director Of Engineering - Enterprise, Applications
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobbie Perlstein is a director-level engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and modernizing high-revenue web and backend systems, currently leading 20+ engineers at Shutterstock's Enterprise and Applications orgs. He has driven architecture and deprecation strategies for microservice migrations, owned product lines generating hundreds of millions in annual revenue, and led localization and AI-enabled tooling for global creative workflows. Known for combining hands-on engineering (polyglot background from Node, Ruby, Java to infrastructure tooling) with people-first management, he focuses on career development, hiring, and cross-team governance. After stepping away in April 2024 to travel the world, he returns with refreshed perspective on scaling teams and product innovation at the intersection of web and AI.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Special Honors, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Special Honors, Computer Science at University of Colorado at Denver
Github Skills (9)
admin-interface5
api4
pluggable4
restful3
restful-api3
nodejs3
admin3
cms2
journal1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
robbiep/placeholder_site
Jan 2015 - Mar 2020
This is a simple PHP site placeholder until my Rails app is ready
Contributions:16 pushes in 5 years 2 months
robbiep/linguistic_geometry
Feb 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:60 commits in 3 months
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