Summary
Robert Firstman is a software engineer with nine years of professional experience, currently building systems at Meta while pursuing an M.S. in Computer Science with a machine learning specialization at Georgia Tech. He combines industry-grade product engineering from internships and roles at Microsoft, The Home Depot, and Facebook with academic research experience from Georgia Tech’s data science community. Comfortable across backend services and large-scale engineering organizations, he has repeatedly moved from internship to full-time impact in major tech teams. Based in Atlanta, he brings practical operational experience dating back to early customer-facing roles, which informs a user-centered engineering mindset. While focused on ML in graduate studies, he maintains strong software fundamentals honed through production work on Windows Admin Center and other enterprise projects. Robert’s career shows a pattern of accelerating responsibility and cross-functional collaboration in both research and product settings.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Spanish