Robert Grant
Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Grant is a Staff Software Engineer based in Mountain View with 13 years building reliable, scalable systems across SRE and automation roles. He progressed through Site Reliability Engineering into a staff-level role at LinkedIn, shaping operational excellence and platform reliability for large-scale services. Known as detail-oriented and autodidactic, he blends hands-on coding with systems thinking to reduce toil and improve observability. His background includes automation engineering at Equifax and full-stack development early in his career, giving him a practical appreciation for both legacy systems and modern cloud-native architectures. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex incidents into durable engineering improvements and to mentor teams on reliability best practices. Outside of work he maintains an understated GitHub presence, reflecting a pragmatic focus on production impact over flashy open-source visibility.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Georgia State University
German
Github Skills (27)
tsp-solver10
ndjson10
messaging10
python10
api-client10
networkx10
travelling-salesman-problem10
groupme10
chess10
api10
infoblox10
antcolony10
pypi10
lichess10
wrapper10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rhgrant10/acopy
Feb 2014 - Apr 2022
A Python implementation of the Ant Colony Optimization Meta-Heuristic
Contributions:183 commits, 3 PRs, 46 pushes in 8 years 3 months
antcolonypythonpython3python-libarytravelling-salesman-problem
rhgrant10/ndjson
May 2018 - Feb 2020
ndjson with the same interface as the builtin json module
Contributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 9 months
ndjsonpythonpython3python-librarypypi
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