Robert Prince is a hands-on Staff Data Engineer and systems architect with two decades of experience designing and operating internet and infrastructure systems across startups and enterprise teams. He combines deep technical leadership—from specification and architecture to implementation and support—with practical mentoring and team-building skills demonstrated in roles from CTO/co-founder to senior engineering director. His career includes driving standards work (ASAM/ISO, OSGi, CableLabs) and building production systems on cloud platforms and on-prem stacks, showing comfort with both embedded/automotive and web-scale domains. At Invoca and prior companies he’s led complex releases, automation, and data-driven platform efforts while maintaining a developer-first pragmatism. Based in Santa Barbara, he brings a veteran operator’s mindset informed by early experience in the US Navy and a long track record of shifting teams toward modular, maintainable engineering practices. Notably, his background spans both standards committee influence and hands-on tooling—bridging formal specification work with the messy realities of production operations.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS CCS/Computer Science, BS CCS/Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara
Associate's degree, Associate's degree at Santa Barbara City College
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