Robin Binder
Head Of Engineering at Caravan
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRobin Binder is a hands-on engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling web and native products used by millions, now serving as Head of Engineering at Caravan. He blends full-stack craftsmanship (TypeScript, React/React Native, Node, GraphQL, PHP/Laravel) with people-first management, growing distributed teams and boosting velocity 2.5x while raising NPS above 70. Robin is pragmatic about tech choices—favoring code reuse between React and React Native, CI/CD automation, and continuous refactor to avoid technical debt—and has cut build/test times by 75% through custom pipelines. He’s experienced across corporate, nonprofit, and celebrity projects, and pairs strength-based coaching with deep involvement in architecture, hiring, and developer experience. Trained in business information systems and technology leadership (Cornell), he uniquely combines product-focused delivery with a talent for operationalizing scalable, maintainable engineering practices.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Information Systems, Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Information Systems at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW)Technology Leadership Certificate, Technology Leadership Certificate at Cornell University
English, German, French
Github Skills (108)
instabug10
react-native-app10
microfrontend10
bug-reporting10
firebase10
framework710
javascript10
mbaas10
push-notifications10
obsolete10
crashlytics10
typescript10
android10
firestore10
mobile10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bobinrinder/react-keyboard-input-hook
May 2019 - Jul 2021
A React hook to easily work with keyboard inputs.
Contributions:11 releases, 64 commits, 10 PRs in 2 years 2 months
reactreact-hookskeyboard-inputskeyboardhooks
bobinrinder/heavens
Jul 2014 - Apr 2019
Contributions:19 commits, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 9 months
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