Robert Washbourne
Technical Staff at Zyphra
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Washbourne is a technical staff engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building backend systems, serverless cloud applications, and distributed job scheduling for companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has shipped production services at Rubrik and built the core microservice deployment layer for Belmont Technology, and currently trains compact reasoning models for edge deployment at Zyphra. Comfortable across Python, Linux, and cloud stacks, he also contributes to scientific and DSL projects—evidenced by a Devito Black–Scholes implementation that blends numerical methods with performance analysis. As a former startup partner he delivered full-stack serverless products (React/Node) and browser extensions, showing both product sensibility and implementation depth. A UMass Amherst computer science student and active blogger, he brings a research-minded approach to practical engineering problems and a knack for squeezing performance from tooling not originally intended for production.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Science, B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
395reputation
33kreached
6answers
20questions
Github Skills (20)
python10
sympy10
dsl10
finite-difference10
performance-analytics9
performance-monitor9
performance-measurement9
performance-monitoring9
code-generation9
compiler-compiler9
performance-analysis9
performance-tuning9
compiler9
chroot6
vmc6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
devitocodes/devito
May 2020 - May 2020
DSL and compiler framework for automated finite-differences and stencil computation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Data Scientist
Back-end Developer & Data ScientistContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 15 comments in 11 days
Contributions summary:Robert contributed to the development of a Black-Scholes example within the Devito framework. Their work involved implementing the Black-Scholes partial differential equation using Devito's DSL. The user also added boundary conditions, performed performance analysis, and provided visualizations for the results. The user demonstrates proficiency in utilizing Devito for solving financial models.
code-generationautomatic-differentiationfinite-differencecompilerultrasound-imaging
rawsh/rawsh.github.io
Jun 2016 - Dec 2020
Contributions:182 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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