Robert Guss
Staff Software Engineer & Technologist at HowToCode.io
Hatboro, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Guss is a Staff Software Engineer and technologist with 11 years of experience building developer tools, front-end systems, and automation workflows across startups and education. Based in Hatboro, PA, he has driven product launches and developer experience improvements at Cypress and Airplane (acquired by Airtable), contributing to widely used projects like the cypress-io GitHub Action and the Real World App. At Westminster Theological Seminary he designs AI-driven automation that saved hundreds of hours in course creation, slashed support tickets, and surfaces hidden data sources for strategic decisions. A prolific educator and creator, he teaches over 50,000 developers via Udemy, authored books on Go and Jamstack, and runs a popular howtocode.io resource and podcast. He blends practical front-end expertise (Next.js, React, TypeScript) with backend automation, ETL, and sentiment analysis, so he’s equally comfortable shipping marketing pages and building production data pipelines. Notably, his work often focuses on reducing manual toil—automating complex human workflows across time zones and improving developer DX in open-source ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BM, Composition, BM, Composition at Berklee College of Music
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (28)
github-ci10
javascript10
cypress10
testing10
ui-design10
component-testing10
vue10
githubaction-workflow10
act10
vue-jsx10
documentation10
typescript9
nuxt9
css9
typescript-types9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
cypress-io/cypress-realworld-app
May 2021 - Aug 2022
A payment application to demonstrate real-world usage of Cypress testing methods, patterns, and workflows.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 191 commits, 76 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to improving the testing infrastructure and updating existing component tests within the `cypress-realworld-app` repository. They fixed type errors in Cypress commands, updated component tests to leverage new practices, and refactored tests to address deprecation warnings. Their work also involved modifying configuration files to integrate development servers for component testing.
payment-applicationwaitend-to-end-testingcypress-testingtesting
cypress-io/cypress-documentation
Apr 2021 - Sep 2022
Cypress Documentation for the Cypress App, API, Cypress Cloud, UI Coverage and Cypress Accessibility.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:91 reviews, 189 commits, 93 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the Cypress documentation site by modifying the front-end code. Their work included fixing UI issues, such as replacing missing icons and updating syntax highlighting themes. The user also implemented navigation enhancements by adding a "Learn" link to both the desktop and mobile navigation menus and corrected the URL structure for examples. The changes indicate a focus on improving the user experience and content accessibility of the documentation site.
apiplugins-apicypresspluginsaccessibility
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