Robert Hainer
Vice President Of Engineering at Pontoro
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Hainer is a seasoned technology executive and VP of Engineering with over two decades building web, business, and scientific software and more than a decade in senior engineering leadership roles. He has led cloud and real‑time communications platforms, managed globally distributed operations and data centers, and repeatedly scaled teams to deliver enterprise-grade SaaS and WebRTC products. Known for an inspirational, people-first management style, he excels at recruiting, retaining, and developing top engineering talent while bridging product, operations, and R&D. Based in San Francisco, he combines hands-on systems and infrastructure expertise from early roles in systems engineering with strategic leadership across startups and growth-stage companies. An aerospace engineering graduate, he brings analytical rigor and a systems-thinking approach to software and organizational design—often uniting diverse technical perspectives into cohesive delivery.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Engineering, BS Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Engineering at University of MichiganBronx Science
Github Skills (33)
opentok10
javascript10
tokbox10
screensharing10
sip10
nodejs10
webrtc10
java9
connectivity9
swift9
android8
sdk8
ios8
react-native8
react7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rhainer/OpenTokRTC-V2-1
Aug 2018 - Nov 2020
OpenTok demo application, version 2.
Contributions:45 pushes, 42 branches in 2 years 3 months
opentokwebrtcvideo
rhainer/interactive-broadcast-api-1
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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