Summary
Robert Haining is a Product Engineering Manager with 14 years of experience building and shipping consumer-facing iOS apps and full-stack products across startups and Fortune 500s in NYC and remotely. He combines deep hands-on Swift/Objective-C expertise with backend skills in Python, PHP, and MySQL, having driven product launches from conception to production at Venmo, PayPal/Braintree, Modest, and now Aura. A former CTO and early Betaworks engineer, he balances technical strategy with people management—leading teams, mentoring engineers, and fostering cross-functional collaboration. His work ranges from reinventing mobile commerce SDKs to inventing user-facing features like ambient-light dark mode and geofenced updates that anticipated platform trends. Comfortable in crypto and web3 contexts, he’s shipped experimental macOS and decentralized apps at General Galactic while keeping a pragmatic focus on delightful user experiences. Based in New York, he thrives at the intersection of product, design, and engineering, building practical systems that scale.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Pace Academy
BS, Computer Science, Mathematics, BS, Computer Science, Mathematics at Wake Forest University
Italian, Spanish