Robert Coup
Software Engineering Manager at Kiwi Forth
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRobert Coup is a seasoned software engineering manager and entrepreneur with nearly two decades building greenfield products, resilient distributed systems, and developer tooling—most recently serving as Software Engineering Manager at Addepar after a long tenure as CTO and co-founder of Koordinates. He combines deep Python expertise and hands-on systems work (Linux, AWS, Kubernetes) with a specialty in geospatial and scientific data, contributing to high-profile open-source projects like PostGIS, GDAL, GeoServer and core Git components. A practical leader who thrives on taking projects from zero to one, he is known for tackling technical debt, improving observability, and shipping reliable, long-lived systems. Robert frequently mentors teams, presents at conferences, and maintains strong ties in the open-source geospatial community; off-hours he’s a map geek and sailing enthusiast who’s lived in New Zealand and now works from Edinburgh.
18 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BE & BCom Double Degree Computer Systems Engineering Operations Mgmt, BE & BCom Double Degree Computer Systems Engineering Operations Mgmt at University of Auckland
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Github Skills (67)
libgit210
postgresql10
python10
testing10
wfs10
c1110
render10
c1710
mappings10
libgit2sharp10
javas10
google-sheets10
spatial10
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Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
libgit2/pygit2
Mar 2019 - Jan 2021
Python bindings for libgit2
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 14 PRs, 36 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Robert contributed significantly to the `pygit2` project, focusing on enhancing functionality related to tree navigation and merge analysis. They implemented new methods for merging, like `merge_analysis_for_ref()`, and refactored the existing code to combine it into `merge_analysis()`. The user also improved the tree navigation capabilities by adding features like `truediv` to TreeEntry and adding properties to access .blob and .tree. Their work included fixing refcounting and improving documentation.
pythonpython-bindingslibgit2python3swig
dojo/dojox
Aug 2008 - Oct 2016
Dojo 1 - extras library. Please submit bugs to https://bugs.dojotoolkit.org/
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 8 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily focused on enhancing the DojoX library, specifically addressing issues within the DTL (Dojo Template Language) and credit card validation areas. Their contributions included fixing bugs related to attribute parsing and tokenization within DTL templates. They also improved the credit card validation library by incorporating updates for new Mastercard ranges, modifying both the core validation logic and associated test cases. These changes demonstrate a focus on maintaining and improving existing functionality.
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