Robert Young
Team Lead - Software Engineer II at Qualtrics
Leinster, Ireland
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Top SchoolRobert Young is a Team Lead and software engineer with eight years of cross-disciplinary experience, currently leading engineering efforts at Qualtrics. He combines practical cloud-native full‑stack skills (React, TypeScript, Python, Node.js, AWS) with a strong research background in computer vision and machine learning from UCD, where he contributed to applied NLP and accessibility projects. Robert has moved from mechanical and automotive systems engineering at Jaguar Land Rover into research-driven software development, bringing rigorous systems thinking and data‑driven problem solving to product teams. He’s comfortable across front-end, back-end and CI workflows, and has hands‑on experience building microservices, web extensions and bespoke test-coverage tools. Notably, his academic work intersected industry partners (Microsoft, Fidelity, NetHope) to improve ML classifiers for humanitarian and enterprise use cases, reflecting an ability to translate research into production impact.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Research Computer Science, MSc Research Computer Science at University College Dublin
English
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Github Skills (48)
django-framework9
javascript9
windows9
open-source9
django8
imagery8
xgboost7
arcore7
windows-app7
machine-learning7
keras7
openxr7
winrt7
freeze6
csv6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
robertyoung2/robertyoung2.github.io
Jun 2020 - Jun 2026
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:50 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 1 month
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
robertyoung2/luis-batch-test-scraper-public
Feb 2020 - Apr 2021
Web scraper in Python using Selenium to extract batch test results from Microsoft Luis dashboard and saves them in CSV format.
Contributions:1 release, 3 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 1 month
csvpythonweb-scraperscrapingdashboard
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