Robert Close
Senior Software Engineer at Parsons Corporation
New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Close is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with five years of professional experience building scalable back-end systems and leading engineering efforts across startups, finance, and defense-focused firms. He has moved between hands-on roles—co-founding and serving as CTO at Rotulu where he architected routing algorithms and deployed solutions across multiple school districts—and senior engineering roles at JPMorgan Chase, Algorithmia, and CTI, emphasizing microservices, Kubernetes, and ML orchestration. Known for combining technical leadership with day-to-day coding, he has practical experience in Spring Boot, Scala, Python, Docker/Kubernetes and driving teams toward CI/CD and TDD practices. His background as a US Army sergeant and math/computer science degree give him disciplined problem-solving and operational rigor that inform his approach to complex systems. Colleagues describe him as an avid learner who values teamwork and creativity, consistently turning product needs into robust, production-ready software.
5 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics and Computer Science at Salisbury UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Cameron University
Github Skills (13)
algorithmia9
data-api9
api9
python-client9
python7
algorithms7
machine-learning7
standardized4
cpp3
cobertura2
gradle1
groovy1
gradle-plugin1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
algorithmiaio/algorithmia-python
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
Python Client for Algorithmia Algorithms and Data API
Contributions:5 reviews, 22 commits, 2 PRs in 1 month
algorithmiaapipythondata-apimachine-learning
algorithmiaio/langpacks
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
Standardized builder and runners for Algorithmia algorithms
Contributions:1 commit, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 day
algorithmiapythoncpprunnersmachine-learning
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