Summary
Robin Schramm is a software engineer with nine years of experience building reliable systems at scale, currently contributing to AWS after prior engineering roles at Microsoft. He blends low-level systems expertise in C/C++ with practical cloud and tooling experience—evident in a personal passion project: a custom POSIX shell featuring a hand-rolled readline, lexer/parser, ASTs, and basic memory management. At Microsoft he built an agentless task state machine for Azure DevOps and pushed for testable designs with 100% unit test coverage, demonstrating an emphasis on quality and documentation. His background includes rigorous C training from 42 and a knack for translating complex requirements into maintainable implementations. Based in Seattle, Robin pairs a humanities education (BA/MA in English) with technical depth, giving him strong communication skills alongside systems-level coding chops. An uncommon strength is his commitment to reimplementing foundational tools from first principles, signaling both curiosity and deep technical confidence.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), English, 3.79, Bachelor of Arts (BA), English, 3.79 at University of California, Berkeley
Master of Arts (M.A.), English, 3.96, Master of Arts (M.A.), English, 3.96 at University of California, Davis
English, English at Palomar College
c, Spanish, English, c++