Robert Beal
Staff Tech Lead Manager at Yoto
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRobert Beal is a Senior Staff Software Engineer and people-first technology leader based in the UK with over two decades of software experience and more than a decade in senior delivery and management roles. He excels at guiding startups through scale-up challenges, designing serverless, event-driven platforms that handle spikes of up to 20x traffic and consistently deliver >1B monthly requests. He combines hands-on engineering with strategic leadership—shaping domain ownership, team structures, and documentation-first practices to enable rapid, safe change. A passionate advocate for security, privacy, system thinking and code craft, he has driven major reductions in incidents and defects while doubling engineering capacity during rapid growth. Outside of work he self-hosts and automates much of his life, reflecting a pragmatic obsession with control, reproducibility and open source.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of ExeterQueen Elizabeth's School, Barnet
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Github Skills (149)
python10
openconnect10
serverless-express10
carddav10
closed10
aws-serverless10
paloaltonetworks10
stylish10
icalendar10
iot10
radicale10
docker10
alto10
caldav10
docker-image10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
landtechnologies/docker-ci-images
Mar 2019 - Nov 2021
Custom built image for CircleCI builds
Contributions:4 reviews, 22 PRs, 166 pushes in 2 years 8 months
buildscirclecidockerbuildkit
robertbeal/arch-install
Dec 2019 - Nov 2024
Contributions:25 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years
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