Robert Elwell
Vice President Of Software Engineering at Self-Employed
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Elwell is a seasoned engineering leader with over a decade of hands-on experience building and scaling high-performance software teams across cloud, security, and DevOps domains. Currently VP of Software Engineering at MacStadium, he has a track record of growing organizations, instituting release and change-control rigor, and driving revenue-impacting partnerships from roles at Vultr, UserTesting, and GE Digital. He blends deep technical fluency—spanning distributed systems, search (Apache Solr), orchestration, and ML-inspired NLP work—with strong people and process leadership, hiring and mentoring teams of 40+ engineers. Robert’s background in computational linguistics and early career work on search and NLP informs pragmatic, data-driven approaches to product and architecture decisions. He also moonlights as a chief technologist on client projects, keeping hands-on familiarity with emerging stacks and operational tooling. Based in Atlanta, he is known for turning messy, growth-stage challenges into repeatable engineering practices that scale.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MA Linguistics, MA Linguistics at The University of Texas at AustinBA Linguistics, BA Linguistics at University at Albany
Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, German
Stackoverflow
6,638reputation
2.3mreached
105answers
1question
machine-learning
top-5%
xml-parsing
top-1%
svn
top-5%
nlp
top-5%
php
top-1%
xml
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
serverless10
cloud-init10
jira10
php10
jira-integration10
python10
python-development10
django10
docker-compose10
crowd10
pyramid10
clarity10
searchkick10
rank10
annotate10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
relwell/DapsBundle
Sep 2012 - Jul 2014
Contributions:30 commits in 1 year 10 months
bundlephpsymfony-bundleldapsymfony2
relwell/corenlp-xml-lib
Nov 2013 - Jun 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 7 months
nlppython-librarystanfordpythonxml
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