Robert Taraya
Senior Product Engineer at Bark
Plano, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Taraya is a Senior Product Engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable Ruby on Rails and modern JavaScript applications, currently focused on child safety products at Bark. He has deep federal systems experience—delivering Rails 8 and React features for USCIS, refactoring legacy front ends into Hotwire-friendly Stimulus controllers, and helping break a large monolith into microservices while improving CI/CD and security posture. Known for a calm, curious approach to incidents, he prioritizes maintainability, TDD, and thoughtful code reviews, and enjoys mentoring engineers to develop debugging intuition and design tradeoff skills. With a Mechanical Engineering background and a history of HIPAA- and federal-compliant systems, he brings methodical problem-solving and an engineer’s craft mindset to product-focused teams.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at San Francisco State UniversityCalifornia Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Github Skills (4)
javascript3
game-programming2
pagination2
bootstrap2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
roberttaraya/laptop
Jun 2015 - Feb 2022
Contributions:166 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 8 months
a-shellmacshell-scriptturnsdevelopment-machine
roberttaraya/game-of-life
Oct 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:106 commits in 1 month
gamejavascriptgame-ofconway-s-game-of-lifelife
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