Robert 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 University
Associate of Science - AS (1) Mathematics and (2) Computer Science, Associate of Science - AS (1) Mathematics and (2) Computer Science at Mt. Hood Community College
A Sudoku puzzle generator and solver JavaScript library.
Contributions:64 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 8 years 8 months
javascript-libraryjavascriptsolversudokupuzzle
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Robert Mcguire - Sr. Software Engineer Web Platform Team