Robert Weiner
Senior Vice President Of Software Engineering at Kroll
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Weiner is a Senior Vice President of Software Engineering in New York with nine years of recent experience leading R&D teams and shipping production-grade systems in Python, C#, Pandas, NumPy, SQL and cloud-based Azure services. He specializes in building efficient, maintainable architectures and testing pipelines that deliver long-term operational dividends for large, data-rich financial and valuation platforms. A pragmatic hands-on leader, he moves projects from conception to commercial deployment while improving developer workflows such as task tracking and automated multi-process testing. His open-source pedigree includes early influential tools (Hyperbole and the OO-Browser) and recent contributions to the popular Emacs ace-window package, reflecting a long-standing focus on developer productivity and user-centric interfaces. He pairs deep academic training (M.S. from Brown, B.S. from MIT) with decades of systems-level experience spanning IoT, embedded control, and large-scale web and desktop tooling. Colleagues rely on him for creative team building, elegant code, and practical adoption of technologies that materially reduce maintenance cost.
9 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude at Brown University
Github Skills (6)
window-management10
emacs-lisp10
ui-design9
graphical-user-interface9
user-interface9
documentation8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
abo-abo/ace-window
Nov 2017 - Mar 2019
Quickly switch windows in Emacs
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 48 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the Emacs package `ace-window`, focused on enhancing its functionality and improving the user experience. Their work included adding features like creating new frames and expanding the dispatch options. Additionally, they addressed bug fixes and documentation updates, streamlining the usability and clarity of the package. The contributions demonstrate a good understanding of the package's internal structure and user interaction.
elisptext-editingwindowsspacemacsemacs
rswgnu/hyperbole
Jul 2016 - Jan 2023
GNU Hyperbole: The Everyday, Hypertextual Information Manager
Contributions:20 releases, 748 reviews, 563 commits in 6 years 6 months
elisphypermediagnuoutlinesrust-language
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