Robby Grossman
VP Engineering & VP Finance at Wistia
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolRobby Grossman is a seasoned engineering leader with 17 years of experience scaling product and infrastructure teams, currently serving as VP Engineering & VP Finance at Wistia in Somerville, MA. He has grown through hands-on roles from engineer to executive at Wistia, building high-performing, diverse teams that deliver video products and analytics at scale. Robby combines technical depth—contributing bug fixes and feature improvements to open-source Ruby on Rails projects like the Plutus double-entry accounting engine—with operational finance and management expertise. He previously founded startups and led engineering at high-throughput platforms, shipping services that handled hundreds of millions of hits per day. Comfortable toggling between code, architecture, and business strategy, he brings entrepreneurial grit and a track record of turning complex systems into pragmatic, team-driven solutions.
18 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
M.L.A. Management Finance and Control, M.L.A. Management Finance and Control at Harvard UniversityB.A. Computer Science, B.A. Computer Science at Wheaton College Massachusetts
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Github Skills (8)
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
database9
database-api9
rspec9
databases9
configurations6
key-value6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
mbulat/plutus
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
A Ruby on Rails Engine which provides a double entry accounting system for your application
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Robby primarily contributed to fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the Plutus accounting engine. Their work includes resolving an error in the balance sheet when no entries exist, updating the application to Rails 4, and adding totals to balance sheets and income statements. They also ensured the correct rounding of values in the general ledger and transaction journal displays.
ruby-on-rails
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