Summary
Robert Kendall is a Senior Software Architect based in Boston with a deep track record of building and scaling educational technology over two decades. He has progressed from hands-on front-end JavaScript and CSS work with React, Redux, AngularJS and Node.js to leading architecture and platform efforts at Skillsoft, driving production workflows and service-oriented design. His career at Cengage and Houghton Mifflin combined product-facing development, automation tools, and process improvements that repeatedly shrank production time and reduced errors—skills he continues to apply to complex content and media systems. He’s fluent in designing REST-based services, canonical data specs, and tooling for large-scale content management, and has led teams that delivered hundreds of pedagogical sites per year. Uncommonly for an engineer, his background includes formal music degrees and teaching experience, which informs a user-focused, editorial-aware approach to educational product design.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Musicology, MA, Musicology at New York University
BMus, Music, BMus, Music at The University of British Columbia