Robert Larrick
Director Of Engineering at RTS Labs
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Larrick is a seasoned Director of Engineering with 17 years of experience building and scaling high-performing, globally distributed software teams. He blends hands-on full-stack expertise—starting as a Ruby on Rails engineer and expanding through React, Node.js, and Python—with a leadership focus on team dynamics inspired by Peopleware and The Mythical Man-Month. Currently leading engineering at RTS Labs after senior leadership roles at Demyst, he has deep experience managing mixed teams of full-time staff and contractors across US, nearshore, and offshore contexts. Robert enjoys diving into system performance and has a particular interest in machine learning and neural networks, reflecting a curiosity that keeps him technically engaged alongside his managerial duties. Based in Richmond, VA, he pairs a Computer Science background from Old Dominion with a broader liberal-arts foundation in history, an unusual combination that informs his practical yet people-centered approach to engineering leadership.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Virginia TechBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Old Dominion University
Github Skills (64)
mysql9
postgresql9
dashboard9
visualization9
hal-json9
slack9
lambda9
clojure9
database9
data-visualization9
transform8
adyen8
data-analysis8
payment-processing8
aws-sam8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
deathbob/Galcon-Google-AI-Challenge
Sep 2010 - Apr 2011
Contributions:53 commits in 7 months
deathbob/halidator
Oct 2012 - Nov 2013
Small library for validating hal+json
Contributions:22 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 1 month
macrosvalidationdeserializationvalidatorjson-data
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