Robert Vrabel is an experienced engineering manager and full-stack web developer with two decades in the industry and a dozen years in hands-on roles driving large website projects. Currently leading engineering at Bankrate after senior engineering work at Red Ventures, he excels at planning, shipping, and operating high-traffic web applications using modern JavaScript frameworks, PHP/Laravel, and cloud services on AWS. He’s known for mentoring junior engineers, instituting CI/CD and testing practices, and turning ad-hoc workflows into repeatable, open-source starter projects—examples include a Laravel starter and shared composer/npm packages. His background at Wayne State shows a blend of technical leadership and product thinking: re-architecting major sites, building self-service tools used campus-wide, and enforcing accessibility and automated testing. Organized, communicative, and ownership-driven, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a focus on developer experience and operational reliability. Based in Detroit, he brings deep institutional knowledge of web stacks and a track record of moving teams from legacy systems to maintainable, testable platforms.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Associates Networking Specialist Associate of Applied Science, Associates Networking Specialist Associate of Applied Science at Macomb Community College
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