Summary
Robert Kolmos is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building scalable, highly available web services, now focused on real-time chat at Microsoft after a recent senior role at Indeed. He has hands-on expertise scaling real-time systems—having increased chat engagement and scaled a Server-Sent Events service from tens of thousands to millions of concurrent connections—and designed a frontend library to multiplex SSE across components to work around HTTP/1 limits. His work spans backend APIs, GraphQL migrations, and analytics-driven features that connect product to data science models. Based in the Greater Seattle Area and grounded in a Computer Science degree from the University of Washington, he pairs pragmatic engineering with mentorship, delivering measurable product impact while coaching peers.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Washington