Robert Lyons
Vice President Of Engineering at Medidata Solutions
New York, New York, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolRobert Lyons is a seasoned engineering executive with 11 years of senior leadership experience and a long track record of founding and scaling technology companies in data-intensive domains. Currently Vice President of Engineering at Medidata Solutions, he blends hands-on architecture and big-data expertise with product and organizational leadership to deliver mission-critical systems for regulated industries. He previously founded and led startups that were acquired and integrated into larger firms, scaling platforms to handle hundreds of thousands of users and race-day events through real-time streaming, analytics, and resilient APIs. Robert’s background in economics and educational technology informs a data-driven, user-focused approach to building software that meets strict regulatory and operational requirements. Rare among engineering VPs, he has deep prior experience as a founder/CTO shipping production-grade scoring, registration and clinical trial data systems that were commercial successes. Based in New York, he excels at turning complex domain constraints into scalable architecture and monetizable data products.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Economics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Economics at University of California, BerkeleyMaster of Science - MS, Economics, Master of Science - MS, Economics at University of MinnesotaHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Xaverian Brothers High SchoolMaster of Education - MEd, Educational Technology, Master of Education - MEd, Educational Technology at Boston CollegeBachelor's degree, International Relations, Bachelor's degree, International Relations at Georgetown University
Github Skills (68)
analytics-tracking10
rdf10
schema-org10
structured-data10
json-ld10
avro9
base629
json-schema9
dm9
schema9
documentation-generator9
clickstream8
markdown8
java8
visualizations7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
epiphanous/gql-resolver
Nov 2018 - Sep 2019
A scalable resolver to support large GraphQL schemas with pluggable query strategies.
Contributions:46 commits, 11 PRs, 26 pushes in 10 months
queryscalablegraphql-subscriptionsresolvergraphql-schemas
epiphanous/flinkrunner
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
Contributions:53 releases, 48 reviews, 209 commits in 4 years 4 months
coherentflinkswigdmjobs
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.