Roberto Romo
Principal Software Engineer at Wētā FX
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolRoberto Romo is a Principal Software Engineer based in Wellington, New Zealand, with 14 years of experience building data platforms, ETL systems, and low-level software across film, media and analytics industries. At Wētā FX he owns the full lifecycle of internal applications and the company’s data platform—designing ClickHouse-backed warehouses, a bespoke ETL/ELT scheduler running thousands of transformations daily, BI reporting and an MLOps pipeline that moves models from exploration into production. He combines a love of clean, readable code and algorithmic optimization with hands-on experience in Go, C++, Python, SQL and infrastructure operations, and has contributed upstream improvements to the popular pure-Go line editor liner. Comfortable across scripting, systems and large-scale architectures, Roberto thrives on projects that require cross-disciplinary problem solving and measurable business impact. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture, operational ownership and the kind of deep curiosity that drives continual language and tooling adoption.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at AmeyalliComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
history10
management10
go10
udp6
amazon-web-services6
gorilla6
postgresql6
amazon-s36
pointer6
aws-sdk6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
peterh/liner
Nov 2014 - Nov 2014
Pure Go line editor with history, inspired by linenoise
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 6 comments, 1 issue in 15 days
Contributions summary:Roberto primarily contributed to enhancing the functionality of the `liner` line editor. Their work focused on implementing features such as reverse intelligent search, password prompts, and an Emacs-like killring for text manipulation within the editor. The commits involved modifying the core logic of the editor, including keystroke handling and history management to enable these features. Furthermore, they addressed a bug related to the backspace functionality within the reverse search feature.
golangline-editorlinenoisepure-goeditor
AsustinStudios/Zombie-Labyrinth
Nov 2013 - Dec 2022
Contributions:127 commits, 12 pushes, 1 comment in 9 years 2 months
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