Summary
Robert Arkwright is a Senior Software Engineer based in Old Toronto with 12 years of experience building high-traffic, resilient front-end systems and guiding architectural decisions. He has led the front-end migration of kijiji.ca to an isomorphic React/Redux/Webpack stack, driving performance, personalization, and a novel spam-detection pipeline for a product used by roughly half of Canadians. Equally comfortable in startups and enterprise teams, he founded a successful mobile-first food discovery site and previously modernized newsroom and publishing platforms using pragmatic CI/CD and feature-branch workflows. A hands-on mentor and senior technical committee member, he blends deep front-end craft—immutable data, server-side rendering, code splitting, CSS-in-JS—with service-oriented deployment on Mesos/Marathon/Docker. Not obvious from titles: he frequently ships skunkworks projects to win support for major initiatives, turning prototypes into company-wide standards.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer