Robert Beard
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolRobert Beard is a software development engineer at AWS with a unique background as a former tax lawyer and founder of a legal-tax SaaS startup, bringing six years of hands-on engineering experience coupled with deep domain expertise in REIT, partnership, and M&A tax. He blends rigorous legal thinking from roles as a partner at King & Spalding and advanced tax training (LL.M.) with practical engineering work, including backend contributions to the popular django-components project to improve template context and nested component handling. Comfortable moving between product, code, and complex regulatory requirements, he builds tools that translate sophisticated tax workflows into reliable software. Based in Atlanta, he pairs entrepreneurial experience with enterprise engineering at scale and a proven ability to bridge tax practice and developer ecosystems.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
J.D, J.D at Georgetown University Law CenterB.A., History, B.A., History at Yale UniversityLL.M., Taxation, LL.M., Taxation at University of Florida Levin College of Law
Github Skills (6)
context-manager10
context-api10
component-kit10
template-tags10
python10
django10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
django-components/django-components
Dec 2020 - Jan 2022
Create simple reusable template components in Django.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 reviews, 9 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the Django-based project by addressing issues related to component rendering and context handling. They fixed bugs related to context variable passing and implemented features to pass context to template tags, and reworked the overall handling of context within the component structure. Their work included resolving an issue with multiple component_block tags and enhancing slot management, improving nested component functionality.
djangodjango-templatesreusable-componentspypi-packagefrontend
rbeard0330/django-components
Dec 2020 - May 2021
A way to create simple reusable template components in Django.
Contributions:50 pushes, 4 branches in 5 months
djangotemplatepythonreusable
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.