Robert Mcguire
Sr. Software Engineer Web Platform Team
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Mcguire is a senior full-stack engineer with 16 years of experience building web platforms, frameworks, and tooling that improve developer experience and reliability at scale. Currently on Zillow’s Web Platform team in Seattle, he focuses on web performance (Core Web Vitals), real-time monitoring, and centralized observability used across thousands of services. He founded Zillow’s open source program and has contributed to industry tools like Google’s Lighthouse and web-vitals.js, blending hands-on engineering with community-facing stewardship. Comfortable across JavaScript/TypeScript, cloud infrastructure, and modern CI/CD, Rob pairs deep technical craft with a pragmatic focus on shipping measurable improvements. Off the clock he makes things by hand as well as in code, bringing a maker’s attention to detail to both software and woodworking.
16 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Oregon State UniversityAssociate of Science - AS (1) Mathematics and (2) Computer Science, Associate of Science - AS (1) Mathematics and (2) Computer Science at Mt. Hood Community College
English
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Github Skills (160)
dashboard10
postgresql10
google-analytics10
grafana10
sudoku10
elasticsearch10
influxdb10
monitoring10
javascript10
gulp10
editor10
data-visualization10
githubaction-workflow10
developer-tools10
lighthouse10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rei/balsa
May 2014 - Jan 2015
Lightweight, multi-relay JavaScript logging for the browser
Contributions:99 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 9 months
javascriptlogging
robatron/robmd.net
May 2011 - Apr 2017
Contributions:664 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 6 years
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