Robert Pearce is a Senior Software Engineer and entrepreneur with 12 years of experience building and mentoring teams, shipping developer-focused tools, and maintaining open-source projects. Based in Mount Pleasant, SC, he blends front-end expertise in JavaScript/React and accessibility with backend work in Node, Ruby/Rails, and emerging systems languages like Rust, Nix, and Haskell. He co-founded RidePost, runs Pearce Software and partners at Altiora Labs while contributing notable OSS such as the long-lived react-medium-image-zoom library. A former instructor, he’s passionate about developer productivity and teaching, helping others learn through code, talks, and mentorship. His background in English informs clear technical writing and documentation that amplifies his open-source and product work.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BA, English Language and Literature/Letters, BA, English Language and Literature/Letters at University of South Carolina-Columbia
🔎 🏞 The original medium.com-inspired image zooming library for React (since 2016)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:60 releases, 29 reviews, 868 commits in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Robert's commits primarily focused on developing features for the React-based image zoom library. They implemented touch event listeners and made improvements to the rendering of the zoomed image and overlay. The user also refactored components, added styles, and addressed issues related to image rendering and positioning.
Contributions:57 commits, 70 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years
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Robert Pearce - Senior Software Engineer at Altiora Labs, LLC