Summary
Robert Gatti is a Lead Engineer based in Minnesota with over a decade of experience building and optimizing high-traffic internet applications. He combines hands-on application development—particularly with Adobe ColdFusion—and deep Microsoft SQL Server expertise, focusing on performance tuning, normalized schemas, views, and stored procedures. Robert has progressed from hands-on developer and architect roles to leadership positions including CIO and platform architect, now driving engineering efforts at Target. He is skilled at designing event-driven systems that handle high load and implements caching and optimization strategies to sustain scale. Beyond production systems, he has a background in research-style problem solving (applying "Game of Life" concepts to satellite image analysis) that informs his pragmatic approach to complex architecture and data modeling.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at University of North Texas
AS, General Science, emphasis on Computer Science, AS, General Science, emphasis on Computer Science at Brookhaven Community College