Robert Bruce
Lead Software Engineer at Burning Man Project
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Bruce is a Lead Software Engineer in Portland with a decade of hands-on experience building serverless, cloud-native platforms using Go, JS/TS, GraphQL and AWS. He progressed at Lightspeed Systems from intern to lead, specializing in Lambda-driven architectures, DynamoDB patterns, and TDD while mentoring teams and shipping production services. He brings a pragmatic systems background from manufacturing and hardware startups—designing PCB/IoT prototypes and automating horticulture environmental control—which informs his practical approach to reliability and observability. A longtime tech enthusiast since 1988, he pairs deep operational instincts (running crypto rigs and media servers) with formal training from Epicodus and a track record of reducing operational friction through automation.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science Biochemistry ACS Certified, Bachelors of Science Biochemistry ACS Certified at University of Portland
Github Skills (34)
python9
raspberry-pi8
home-automation8
iot8
mqtt8
home-assistant8
golang8
llm7
asyncio7
privacy7
automation7
localized6
go6
indoor-positioning6
llama6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
entegral/hohmWARE
Feb 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 38 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years
entegral/Barmate-Ravencoin
Nov 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:30 commits, 23 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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