Robert Strack
Senior Software Engineer, Tools And Infrastructure at Google
New York, New York, Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Strack is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building tools and infrastructure at Google, specializing in distributed systems, web applications, and large-scale data processing. He blends a research background—PhD-level work and an open-source ML training tool—with pragmatic engineering practices like TDD, Scrum, and SOLID design to deliver robust, maintainable systems in Java, Scala, and Python. His early systems administration and HPC experience inform a deep operational understanding of clusters, databases, and performance tuning that complements his backend development work. An active open-source contributor, he improved precision and customization of the widely used ohmyzsh timer plugin, showing an eye for polishing developer UX as well as core infrastructure. Based in New York with roots in Poland, he gravitates toward complex, ML- or Big Data-oriented projects where algorithmic insight and production-grade engineering intersect.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Virginia Commonwealth UniversityMSc Eng, Computer Engineering, MSc Eng, Computer Engineering at AGH University of Krakow
Polish, English, German
Stackoverflow
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4kreached
3answers
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Github Skills (13)
sh10
script10
linux-shell10
shell10
zsh10
plugin10
cli9
utility8
filename6
math6
linear-algebra6
linear-regression6
java6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,400+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 5 PRs, 2 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Robert contributed to the `ohmyzsh` project by developing and improving the timer plugin, a feature that calculates and displays the execution time of commands. Their work involved calculating command execution time, simplifying the time string calculation, and improving the timer's precision. They also added functionality to customize the timer format and display, enhancing user experience.
oh-my-zsh-pluginpythonrails-pluginszsh-configurationauto-update
strackr/gsvm
Oct 2012 - Feb 2013
Contributions:117 commits in 4 months
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