Robert Tomb
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Tomb is a seasoned engineering leader with 13+ years of experience building distributed teams and developer-focused tooling across retail and advertising platforms. Currently Director of Engineering for Partner Tooling at Shipt, he specializes in enabling shared code ownership through TDD, CI, and visible organizational practices that scale across multi-site and offshore teams. Technically fluent in Ruby, JavaScript, Java and a variety of scripting and integration technologies, he has shipped everything from client-side widgets to high-throughput APIs and platform migration efforts into AWS/GKE. Known as a facilitator rather than a traditional boss, he pairs hands-on engineering craft with teaching, writing, and public speaking to raise team capability. A former adjunct professor and long-time advocate for test-affected development, he consistently turns operational complexity into predictable, automatable workflows that accelerate product delivery.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BA, English, BA, English at University of Minnesota
Stackoverflow
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vagrant
top-5%
Github Skills (31)
vagrant9
session-store9
application-management8
session-management7
json7
html6
eclipse6
php6
concatenation6
loops6
regex6
ruby6
sumologic6
javascript6
json-parser5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bikeonastick/dottmuxconf
May 2016 - Mar 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 10 months
dotfilestmuxconfigtmux-config
bikeonastick/dotbashstuff
Aug 2015 - Aug 2018
Contributions:3 PRs, 7 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years
bash-configbashconfigdotfilesshell
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