Summary
Robert Sayers is a Staff Software Engineer based in Austin with over 17 years of professional experience and a 25-year history of programming across diverse stacks. He excels at quickly assimilating unfamiliar technologies and turning them into production-ready systems, having built APIs, mobile apps, analytics platforms, and server-side services in Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, and JavaScript. His career includes leading engineering efforts at Humm Systems, long-term hands-on development at Undercover Tourist, and current platform work at Canopy, demonstrating strength in both hands-on delivery and technical leadership. Robert has tackled domain-specific solutions from bioinformatics search tools to customer feedback analytics and ecommerce integrations, showing an ability to bridge product needs and engineering constraints. He pairs formal IT training with a background in liberal arts, which surfaces in pragmatic, user-focused solutions and an aptitude for rapid context switching. Colleagues rely on him for complex integrations and for onboarding new technologies into existing stacks efficiently.
17 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Religion, Religion at The University of Southern Mississippi
B.S., IT - Software, B.S., IT - Software at Western Governors University
Spanish, English