Robert Jennings
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Findhelp
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Jennings is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in Austin with 11 years of experience building cloud-native platforms and developer-focused products. He has led teams and projects at DigitalOcean and Canonical to deliver scalable PaaS features, CI/CD-driven image pipelines, and cross-cloud publishing for thousands of images daily. Robert combines deep systems and kernel background from IBM with product-oriented delivery—designing pragmatic MVPs, driving migrations, and reducing operational cost and latency. He mentors and grows engineers, establishes hiring and onboarding processes, and champions incremental delivery and infrastructure-as-code. Known for finding practical workarounds for hard production problems (from gVisor and Docker regressions to CA migration edge-cases), he balances technical depth with clear communication across product, networking, and billing teams. Based in Austin, he partners with founders and product leads to turn real-world problems into shippable, extensible solutions.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (124)
command-line-interface10
digitalocean-api10
ecosystem10
digitalocean10
linux10
api10
golang10
sandbox10
container10
lxc10
go10
lxd10
docker10
criu10
seccomp10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rcj4747/game
Feb 2022 - Mar 2024
A word guessing game made using React, Typescript, and Tailwind
Contributions:7 PRs, 7 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 1 month
guessing-gamereacttailwindcsstailwindword-guessing
rcj4747/AdventOfCode
Dec 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:10 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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