Robert Bartel
Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Bartel is a Staff Software Engineer and technical leader with 13+ years of experience building scalable web platforms and cross-app integrations, currently shaping product engineering at Airbnb. He has led teams at Instagram/Meta to integrate wearables and VR into social experiences, scaled personalized video generation to millions per day, and launched local-news products with multi-million daily users. Comfortable across front-end and backend domains, Robert combines product thinking, UX engineering, and user research to ship polished interfaces and agentic AI tools. An active contributor to front-end open source—adding rotation support to a popular lightweight pie-chart plugin—he brings meticulous attention to interactive details forged early in agencies and startups. Based in the NYC area, he pairs hands-on coding with mentorship and a track record of growing engineering teams and adoption across large, distributed platforms.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
No degree Physics, No degree Physics at FAU Erlangen-NürnbergBachelor’s Degree Digitale Medien, Bachelor’s Degree Digitale Medien at DHBW Mannheim
German, English, French
Github Skills (5)
javascript10
coffeescript10
jquery8
html7
css4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rendro/easy-pie-chart
Feb 2013 - May 2017
easy pie chart is a lightweight plugin to draw simple, animated pie charts for single values
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:76 commits, 4 PRs, 10 pushes in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the visual aspects and interactive elements of the easy pie chart plugin. Their work involved adding a `rotate` option to the chart, allowing for customization of its orientation. They modified the core JavaScript and CoffeeScript files to introduce this feature and added an example demonstrating the `rotate` functionality within the index.html. The changes encompassed modifications to core rendering logic and data attribute handling.
pie-chartchartschartanimatedlightweight-plugin
rendro/countdown
Aug 2012 - May 2016
Simple, lightweight and easy to use jQuery countdown plugin
Contributions:1 release, 20 commits, 3 PRs in 3 years 9 months
jqueryjquery-countdownjavascriptjquery-plugincountdown
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