Summary
Robert Beatie is a Lead Developer based in Portland, Oregon with nine years of hands-on experience building and shipping software through his own venture, Excognition Studios. He blends a designer’s sense of elegance with pragmatic engineering—favoring simple, organic transitions and multi-disciplinary problem solving from web and mobile QA to backend systems. Comfortable wearing many hats, Robert pairs formal study in computer software engineering with eclectic coursework at Caltech and MIT-inspired thinking, which shows up in his focus on clean models and contrasting, well-crafted interfaces. His background as a wildland firefighter and first responder adds calmness under pressure and a practical bias toward resilient, maintainable solutions.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
A model diagram of how to make model diagrams, Computer and Information Sciences, General, A model diagram of how to make model diagrams, Computer and Information Sciences, General at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Course Crasher, Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design, Course Crasher, Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design at California Institute of Technology
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Harvard Extension School