Summary
Robert Mccoy is a Principal Software Engineer with a decade of experience building large-scale, data-intensive systems across government, education, healthcare, legal, and consulting domains. He has led teams and architectures for eDiscovery and information governance platforms, specializing in backend services that ingest, process, and make searchable millions of records daily using Python, Java, Go, PostgreSQL, and Elastic. Comfortable across the full stack and DevOps, he has driven cost-saving EKS/monitoring initiatives, event streaming with Kafka/RabbitMQ, and integrated NLP/AI pipelines for OCR, transcription, and RAG-style search. Known for pragmatic leadership and hands-on delivery, he transitions legacy systems to modern platforms while keeping operational reliability front and center. Based in Chicago and a Purdue University Fort Wayne computer science graduate, he combines curiosity-driven learning with a consistent record of turning complex, regulated requirements into production-grade solutions.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at Purdue University Fort Wayne
English