Robert Rees
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRobert Rees is a Full Stack Engineer and seasoned technology leader with 15 years' experience building and scaling web platforms across JVM, Python and JavaScript on AWS. He combines hands-on engineering with people-first management—favoring systems thinking, Agile tenets and coaching individuals to reach their potential rather than fitting them into roles. Robert has led technical teams and architecture communities in government and media, co-founded a startup as CTO, and recently shapes carbon reporting at Pledge, bringing strong data modelling and integration expertise. He cares deeply about durable data design and developer experience, having created onboarding, career frameworks and cross-organisational communities to improve delivery at scale. An organiser and community-builder, he co-founded the London Clojurians and remains active in conference committees, blending practical engineering with a knack for convening technical talent.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B Sci (Hons.), Mathematics, B Sci (Hons.), Mathematics at University of Bristol
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (107)
guardian10
serverless-plugin10
rich-text-editor10
jshint9
mastodon-api9
image-management9
solidworks9
cobalt9
yang8
lambda8
aws8
travis-ci8
oms8
documentation8
powerbi8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/scribe-test-harness
Jan 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:14 PRs, 13 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year
rrees/dungeon-escape
May 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:3 PRs, 15 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 10 months
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