Robert Roskam
Senior Engineering Manager at Pantheon
Greenville, South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Roskam is a senior engineering manager who has spent over a decade scaling SaaS systems—from hundreds to billions of requests per minute—while mentoring more than 100 engineers and transforming startups into product-led businesses. He blends hands-on engineering experience (including load-testing and DevOps work for notable open-source projects like Django Channels) with strategic leadership across regulated sectors such as fintech, healthtech, and security. A repeat founder and community builder in Greenville, he cofounded a nonprofit to grow the local tech ecosystem and has led engineering teams at companies like Pantheon and Unstructured. With a background in English and an MBA in Entrepreneurship, he’s adept at translating complex technical tradeoffs into clear product and business decisions.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, English, Bachelor of Arts, English at Bob Jones University
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Github Skills (17)
docker10
loadtest10
dockers10
fabric10
nodejs10
load-testing10
documentation10
cicd9
python8
django7
django-admin6
django-views6
django-models6
django-orm6
celery6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
django/channels
May 2016 - Nov 2016
Developer-friendly asynchrony for Django
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Technical Writer
DevOps Engineer & Technical WriterContributions:7 PRs, 2 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Robert's primary contribution focused on setting up and documenting load testing infrastructure for the Django Channels project. This involved writing fabric commands for installing and running `loadtest` using nodejs. The user also added documentation, including test results, images, and supervisor configurations. Furthermore, they updated the README files to reflect the load testing setup and results.
django
raiderrobert/django-multiurl
Oct 2015 - Aug 2021
Have you ever wanted multiple views to match to the same URL? Now you can.
Contributions:9 releases, 76 commits, 42 PRs in 5 years 11 months
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