Robert Whitney
Founder & CTO at Hapiko
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Whitney is a seasoned technology leader and founder with 15 years of experience building teams and scaling product platforms across startups and major media. As Founder & CTO of Hapiko and former Director of Engineering at The New York Times Games, he led large reorganizations, launched high-profile products like Wordle and Connections, and cut cloud costs by 70% while doubling team size. He has a track record of creating data and marketplace infrastructure at Grailed that helped the company scale to millions of users and a successful acquisition. Comfortable both in hands-on engineering and senior strategy, he’s led billing and identity platform teams at Anthropic and run consultancies that shipped MVPs to market. A believer in continuous improvement, proactive ownership, and user-focused design, he blends product intuition with operational rigor to accelerate value delivery. Based in New York, he often brings a teacher’s mindset—mentoring engineers and shaping careers while driving measurable business impact.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Rochester Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (77)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
robertjwhitney/programr
Jan 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 10 months
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robertjwhitney/PokeTonyJS
May 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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