Robert Arles
Principal Software Engineer at The Walt Disney Company
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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SeniorRobert Arles is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building the platforms, pipelines, and infrastructure that enable engineering teams to move fast and reliably. Based in Los Angeles, he has driven production-ready automation, monitoring, and deployment systems across organizations ranging from startups to The Walt Disney Company. His background blends systems engineering and QA automation—creating test harnesses, CI pipelines, and performance monitoring tools using languages like Python, Java, and C#—and he’s consistently shortened release cycles through smarter environments and tooling. Notably, he has a track record of turning QA investments into operational capabilities (auto-scaling EC2 deployments, Selenium Grid orchestration, and custom alerting) that double as on-call and production observability assets. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture and durable developer experience improvements that quietly reduce incidents and speed delivery.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (34)
webdriver10
linux10
bash10
macos10
appium10
agentic9
ios9
windows9
android9
automation9
w3c9
zsh9
vscode9
test-automation9
automation-framework9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
robertarles/jupyter-notes
Jul 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:377 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
robertarles/keyboard-backlight
Aug 2019 - Dec 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
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