Summary
Robert Gifford is a pragmatic deployment technician and full-stack web developer based in Portland, Oregon, with 11 years of professional experience spanning field IT deployments and web engineering. He combines hands-on hardware and imaging expertise from Dell field deployments with web development skills in React, Node, PHP, MySQL, MongoDB and WordPress honed through freelance and agency work. Comfortable working on call at customer sites, he’s adept at planning rollouts, tracking inventory, and configuring Windows systems while also building CMS-driven sites and custom apps. His background includes enterprise web work at Intel and low-level C++/Ada systems earlier in his career, giving him a durable, systems-oriented perspective. Known for community-minded collaboration and steady problem-solving, he brings both client-facing service discipline and practical full-stack chops to small teams or mixed operations roles. Outside of deployments he keeps a light-hearted presence online—aptly summarized as “Smile A While”—that reflects a focus on positive working relationships.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Science, Computer Science, Masters of Science, Computer Science at Portland State University
Associate's degree, Electronic Technology, Associate's degree, Electronic Technology at College of San Mateo