Robert Saunders
Co-Founder & CEO at Ownright
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Saunders is a product-driven software engineer and entrepreneur with a decade of experience building scalable APIs, mobile experiences, and developer tooling across startups and enterprise teams. As Co-Founder & CEO of Ownright and a former Senior Software Engineer at Shopify, he shipped customer-facing features for the Shop app and helped design API versioning, throttling, and load-testing strategies for Shopify’s public GraphQL APIs. He’s an active open-source contributor to well-regarded projects like graphql-ruby, where his backend refactors and feature work improved maintainability and testing practices. Comfortable from low-level engineering to company leadership, Robert combines a design-minded developer background with a demonstrated ability to operationalize cloud-native and serverless solutions. Based in Toronto, he brings a relentless curiosity for technology and a knack for turning complex systems into simple, user-focused products.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Engineering at Queen's University
English, French
Stackoverflow
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38questions
Github Skills (17)
schema-design10
wpgraphql10
ruby10
wordpress-graphql10
graphql10
graphql-ruby10
object-oriented-programming9
rspec9
activerecord6
cypher6
tabbar6
constraint6
delegates6
bundler6
css6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rmosolgo/graphql-ruby
Jun 2018 - Sep 2019
Ruby implementation of GraphQL
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 14 PRs, 31 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the core implementation and maintenance of the `graphql-ruby` library. Their work included refactoring existing code, such as removing duplicated methods and updating wrapping types, and implementing new features, like yielding field and argument blocks. A significant portion of the commits focused on improving the internal structure and maintainability of the codebase, with changes involving type definitions and argument handling. They also made updates to testing methodologies.
relayrailsrubygraphqlgraphql-ruby
qhacks/qhacks-dashboard
Oct 2017 - Jan 2019
Dashboard for partners and hackers participating in QHacks! :sunglasses: :computer:
Contributions:2 releases, 141 PRs, 192 pushes in 1 year 2 months
participatinghackersqhacksdashboardsunglasses
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