Robert Anderson
Senior Software Engineer at DuckDuckGo
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolRobert Anderson is a product-focused senior software engineer with 14+ years across frontend, backend and iOS, now targeting Principal/Staff Frontend or Full Stack roles. Based in Sydney, he brings deep JavaScript expertise from senior roles at Automattic and Tumblr and currently builds privacy-forward products at DuckDuckGo. He’s an active open-source contributor to high-profile projects like WordPress Gutenberg, where he implemented REST APIs and data-layer actions for reusable blocks. Known for shipping practical, scalable solutions, he blends product sensitivity with hands-on engineering across UI and backend systems. Less obvious: he pairs long-term platform thinking with the pragmatism of a maintainer, able to bridge product goals and robust API design.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
English
Github Skills (13)
wordpress10
api-rest10
rest-api10
php10
javascript10
api10
gutenberg10
api-design10
redux10
restful-api10
apidoc10
react9
web-development9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
WordPress/gutenberg
Oct 2017 - Jan 2023
The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 1376 reviews, 687 commits in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Robert contributed to the development of reusable blocks by implementing a REST API for handling these blocks. This involved creating endpoints for reading, creating, and editing reusable blocks, along with permissions checks and routes. The commits show that the user was responsible for adding features, including the actions, selectors, and reducers that support reusable blocks data layer, which included actions for fetching, updating, saving, converting, and transforming these blocks.
block-editorwordpressgutenbergwordpress-pluginbeyond
noisysocks/yonks
May 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:47 commits, 10 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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