Robin O'brien is a Staff Engineer and Tech Lead with nine years of experience building high-performance backend systems for fast-growing cryptocurrency exchanges. Based in Gauteng, South Africa, he progressed from early-stage senior engineer to leading technical teams at scale, primarily using Kotlin with some Node.js, and has a track record mentoring new hires as teams grew past 120 engineers. A repeat founder (PocketBeats, SeeThru, Kudos) with formal entrepreneurship training, he blends product-minded startup grit with deep hands-on API and exchange engineering. He’s comfortable wearing many hats—from architecting trading systems to coaching engineers—and brings an unusually founder-centric perspective to platform and team leadership.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Matric, Matric at Beaulieu College
Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship at StartupSchool.ac
Startup School Online
Bsc (Hons) Computer Science, Bsc (Hons) Computer Science at University of Pretoria
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