Robert Herley
Software Engineer at Vercel
New York, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Herley is a Software Engineer with nine years of experience building backend and full-stack tooling in Go, Ruby, Node.js, and Python, currently at Vercel after a senior engineering stint at GitHub. He has deep practical experience in GitHub Actions internals—contributing to widely used repos like actions/toolkit, actions/cache, and actions/upload-artifact—improving reliability, logging, and artifact upload behavior. A Stevens Institute of Technology computer science graduate and ex-IBMer, he combines enterprise-grade engineering discipline with open-source collaboration. He’s comfortable across the stack, from crafting core toolkit APIs and markdown summary features to refining cache/restore logic and upload compression/timeouts. Notably, his contributions emphasize maintainability and resiliency in developer tools that directly affect CI/CD workflows for millions of users.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (15)
html10
dependency-management10
markdown10
caching10
typescript10
github-ci10
nodejs10
javascript10
typescripts10
markdown-it10
githubaction-workflow10
typescript-types10
api-design9
compression9
hapi6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
actions/toolkit
Feb 2022 - May 2022
The GitHub ToolKit for developing GitHub Actions.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:102 reviews, 42 commits, 73 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Robert developed core functionality for a GitHub Actions toolkit. They focused on implementing and refining a Markdown summary feature, creating methods for adding various HTML elements such as code blocks, lists, tables, details, images, headings, separators, and block quotes. They refactored the code to improve readability and maintainability, introducing a stringify method and ensuring proper handling of newline characters and potential write operations to the summary file.
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actions/upload-artifact
Nov 2021 - May 2022
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 22 reviews, 8 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Robert's commits primarily involve updates to the artifact upload functionality, including bumping dependencies for the artifact package and related toolkit packages. They added a compression level input to the artifact upload action and incorporated changes from the latest artifact toolkit. Furthermore, the user refactored the upload process, adding more logging and a timeout to ensure the upload process did not stall. These changes suggest contributions focused on maintaining and improving the core upload artifact functionality.
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