Robert Mosolgo
Owner, Developer at Minimum Viable Software
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Mosolgo is a seasoned Ruby-focused software engineer and entrepreneur with 14 years of experience building APIs, developer tools, and open-source libraries. As owner of Minimum Viable Software he designs and maintains graphql-ruby (including a C parser and TypeScript client) and supports the commercial GraphQL-Pro product, blending deep protocol knowledge with pragmatic product stewardship. Previously a Senior Software Engineer at GitHub, he worked on REST and GraphQL platform interfaces and brings strong security sensibilities—formerly leading the GitHub Advisory Database and contributing security features to rubysec/bundler-audit. He also builds industry apps for industrial water systems at Aqualytics, demonstrating adaptability across domains from platform engineering to vertical SaaS. Based in Charlottesville, Virginia, he pairs hands-on systems work with a history of open-source leadership and a knack for turning complex API and security requirements into usable tooling.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), East Asian Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), East Asian Studies at William & Mary
French, Chinese, ruby, javascript
Github Skills (6)
ruby10
security-scan10
security10
rails8
rspec8
ruby-on-rails8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rubysec/bundler-audit
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
Patch-level verification for Bundler
Role in this project:
Backend & Security Engineer
Backend & Security EngineerContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to enhancing the security audit capabilities of the `bundler-audit` tool. They added support for GitHub Security Advisories (GHSAs) by integrating GHSA identifiers into the advisory structure and CLI output. Furthermore, they implemented a method to check for supported vulnerability identifiers, enabling more comprehensive vulnerability detection. They also modified the scanner to correctly ignore specified advisories, improving the tool's usability and accuracy.
bundlerbundler-auditruby-advisory-dbrubydependency-checker
Knewton/grifter
Nov 2013 - Aug 2014
Work with HTTP JSON APIs smoothly, with confidence
Contributions:23 commits, 4 pushes, 3 tags in 9 months
json-api
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