Robert Trencheny is a seasoned infrastructure and DevOps leader with 16 years of experience designing, securing, and operating cloud-native systems for startups and scale-ups. He has led migrations from Heroku to AWS Kubernetes clusters built with Terraform, driven SOC 2/HIPAA/ISO27001 compliance, and kept production downtime to minutes across large fleets. Comfortable coding across Go, iOS, front-end and ops tooling, he has contributed to notable open-source projects including Home Assistant (mobile app and frontend) and multiple Go libraries and tooling repos. As Head of Infrastructure and IT he blends hands-on SRE work with IT and identity management (Okta, MDM) to support both product scale and enterprise requirements. He’s also a repeat founder and early engineer who built systems handling hundreds of millions of requests per day and scaled WordPress properties to tens of millions of monthly users. Based in New York, he pairs pragmatic automation with a history of shipping cross-domain solutions that bridge developer experience, security, and reliability.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Y Combinator
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Orinda Academy
DEPRECATED in favor of native HomeKit support. - Homebridge plugin for Home Assistant
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:21 releases, 96 commits, 99 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Robert contributed significantly to extending the functionality of the Home Assistant plugin, adding support for various HomeKit device types. They implemented new features for garage doors, locks, and fans, integrating them with the HomeKit ecosystem. The user's work involved creating new accessory types and defining the interactions with Home Assistant, including setting up different states. Their contributions included modifications to existing code, and merging in code from external branches.
Contributions:28 releases, 207 commits, 22 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily focused on refactoring the codebase, replacing `fmt` with `logrus` for logging and adjusting the log levels. They made several code changes involving the use of `fmt.Sprintf` instead of string concatenation. Their contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the codebase's maintainability and readability through better logging practices and code style improvements.
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Robert Trencheny - Head Of Infrastructure And IT at Campus