Robert Gonzales
Director Software Engineering at Bandwidth Inc.
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Gonzales is a pragmatic software engineering leader with 7+ years in formal engineering roles and a 20+-year career blending hands-on development, team leadership, and product delivery across startups, enterprise, and public-sector contexts. As Director of Software Engineering at Bandwidth he leads critical initiatives like 911 Access and real-time customer analytics, pairing technical depth with strategic product thinking. An INTJ and high-conscientiousness leader who scores high on Dominance and Autonomy, he excels at uniting diverse personalities into productive teams and shipping reliable systems under pressure. He brings a craftsman mentality to engineering, informed by early cross-functional startup work and a Marine Corps background in photography/design that honed discipline, rapid problem-solving, and clear stakeholder communication. Equally comfortable inventing solutions and driving tenacious execution, he combines analytical rigor with a talent for connecting people and ideas to deliver measurable outcomes.
7 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science Computer Science, Bachelors of Science Computer Science at University of Nebraska at Omaha
Github Skills (63)
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simulation10
client-library10
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simulator10
expressions10
rendering10
command-line-interface10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gonzodepedro/ros2_documentation
Nov 2018 - Feb 2024
ROS2 docs repository
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 29 pushes in 5 years 3 months
rosros2
gonzodepedro/demos
Dec 2018 - Dec 2021
Contributions:3 PRs, 10 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years
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