Summary
Robert Macdavid is a Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience who blends deep academic training in programmable networks (PhD/MEng from Princeton) with hands-on SRE and full-stack engineering across Django, Ansible, Redis, PostgreSQL, and cloud-native CI/CD. He has rebuilt legacy Python systems to high test coverage, designed AWS architectures with CloudFormation and GitLab CI, and implemented dataplane and control-plane components for multi-campus 4G/5G testbeds using P4 and ONOS. Comfortable moving between research and production, he has optimized router dataplanes for Microsoft and analyzed outage trends that contributed to SIGCOMM-level work. Based in Greater Philadelphia, he’s driven by making networks faster and more reliable and is known for shipping clear, maintainable code while quickly picking up new languages and operational tooling.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Rutgers University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Princeton University