Robert Layzell
Staff Engineer at Veracode
Woburn, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Layzell is a Staff Engineer and seasoned software architect with over 20 years of experience designing model-based development tools, enterprise application architectures, and DevOps-enabled delivery pipelines. He excels at translating customer needs into practical solutions, working cross-functionally with founders, product owners, designers and engineers to ship value quickly. His career spans startups and large enterprises—including co-founding WhoZoo and long tenures at CA Technologies and Veracode—where he led integrations, API design, application modernization and mainframe DevOps initiatives. Comfortable switching roles in Agile teams, he contributes across product ownership, coding, QA, documentation and presales, and is known for engaging customers to surface real problems. He combines deep technical craft (code generators, API best practices, multi-OS development) with people-focused skills honed through teaching and public speaking. Based in Woburn, MA, he brings a rare blend of hands-on engineering and strategic architectural leadership.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
N/A, How to Design Effective Graphical User Interfaces, N/A, How to Design Effective Graphical User Interfaces at Human Factors InternationalEffective Spoken Word Presentation Skills, Effective Spoken Word Presentation Skills at Black Isle ConsultingSEI Software Architecture Professional Certificate, Software Architecture, SEI Software Architecture Professional Certificate, Software Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University - Software Engineering InstituteBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of Kent
Github Skills (21)
expressjs10
vulnerabilities8
owasp8
representations8
rest8
nodejs8
javascript7
rgb6
api6
converter6
csharp5
rest-api5
translate5
asp-net5
security4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
layro01/java-api-goat
Oct 2019 - Jul 2023
A simple Java Spring Boot REST App with Vulnerabilities
Contributions:4 PRs, 30 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 10 months
layro01/verademo-java
Nov 2020 - Aug 2024
The Veracode demo application. A simple Java Web App built using Spring MVC.
Contributions:81 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
spring-bootj2eejava-webjava-web-appveracode
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