Front End / Full Stack Web Engineer

Robert Lombardo

********@*****.*** • +1-510-***-**** • LinkedIn • GitHub • npm

Languages: English (native), Korean (conversational), Spanish (basic) US citizen • Location: Austin TX, USA

Technical Proficiencies (yrs)

Git/GitHub, JavaScript, HTML, CSS,

Node.js, npm/yarn, REST APIs,

8+ Digital Ocean, Docker, GitHub

Actions, Hapi, New Relic, Redux,

SEO, SSR, TypeScript, Vuetify

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2/2.5D canvas rendering (PixiJS),

MongoDB, UI animations (gsap),

React, Vue.js (2 & 3), Webpack

4~7 DataDog, ElasticSearch, Jenkins,

Kubernetes, TailwindCSS, Vite

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AWS, Express, GraphQL, Jest, Nuxt,

Redis, Vuex, Websockets (socket.io)

3 C/C++, Chai/Mocha, Cypress,

PostgreSQL, Travis CI, Vercel

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Front End / Full Stack Web Engineer

Learning new things hands-on is what I love most & do best. I am also:

Zealous about good code (readable, reusable, testable, scalable, maintainable...)

Professional on PRs/reviews, commit logs, branch strategy, documentation, scope management, testing, etc.

Team-oriented with good communication & collaboration skills. Employment Experience

4/2024 – present: Indie Game Developer @ Wakefield Studios, Austin TX Full-stack engineering, project management, design, marketing & live ops for multiplayer strategy games on the web; developed proprietary game engine as well as 2.5D rendering

& animation engine; hired & managed globally distributed product dev’t teams; coordinated with sponsors, publishers & ad networks.

● Project: Dungeon Team (2024) - https://dungeonteam.com Stack: React 15 -> Vue 3, Tailwind, PixiJS, socket.io, Node.js, MongoDB, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, New Relic 90% positive reviews on Steam; 4-star rating & Kongregate’s “Hot New Games” frontpage feature.

● Project: War of the Shard (2014)

Flash/AS3 (strongly-typed, object-oriented); sponsored by #1 US web games portal Kongregate; avg. 4-star rating; 400k+ downloads.

● Project: The Appalese Wall (2012)

Flash/AS3; sponsored by Age of Games; avg. 4-star rating; 200k+ downloads. 7/2023 – 4/2024: Senior Front-end Engineer @ Cognite, Austin TX / Hybrid Stack: React (micro-frontends), TypeScript, GraphQL, Github Actions Front end dev’t on AI team for complex industrial data ops platform.

● Created & maintained Javascript plugin for JupyterLite (an in-browser JupyterLab implementation), enabling custom feature dev’t and genAI services.

● Contributed to genAI SDK for import & easy feature access across applications.

● Implemented groundbreaking graphical rendering of AI query payloads with chart.js, immediately featured in sales pitches & conferences.

● Lots of standard web page feature development in micro-frontends paradigm. 8/2021 – 7/2023: Sr. Full Stack Engineer @ Apple via Advantis Global, Remote Stack: Vue 2, Node.js, Express, Jest, Cypress, MongoDB Full stack development for ConversationKit, Apple’s conversational intelligence platform.

● Implemented new feature sets front-to-back across a very complex application & data model

● Upheld 100% standard for e2e & unit test coverage. 7/2019 – 8/2021: Sr. Software Engineer @ Joyent, San Francisco CA (remote) Stack: Vue 2, Vuetify, Nuxt, Node.js, Hapi, AWS SDK, GraphQL

● Developed Vue.js/Vuetify/Nuxt front ends (essentially cloning AWS Console) with Node.js/Hapi/GraphQL API, exceeding pre-production requirements.

● Invented dynamic generation of GraphQL queries against versioned schema, improving workflows & reducing code, reducing API calls (n APIs requested with one call), and automating query validation at build time.

● Rescued a components library project after an external team didn’t deliver.

● Interviewed & mentored new hires; played a lead role in architectural planning. 5/2018– 5/2019: Software Engineer @ Wheelwell, San Francisco CA, USA Stack: React, Node.js (SSR, Express REST APIs, catalog pipeline & other tools scripting), MongoDB, ElasticSearch, AWS, DataDog

● Primary coder standing up the company’s 1st storefront, going from zero to 6-figure

(USD) monthly revenue.

● Refactored & optimized isomorphic web app server, reducing production instances from 10~20 to 3~5, and p50/p99 latency from “wildly unacceptable” to ~40/300ms.

● Introduced modern patterns & practices to front- and back-end codebases, reducing bug frequency & QA cycles, and accelerating the pace of code delivery.

● Migrated products database from MongoDB to ElasticSearch, boosting query performance & unlocking faceted search, type-ahead search, relevancy queries, etc.

● Wrote & optimized product data ingest & export scripts for one-button execution on a catalog of ~400k products in ~30 minutes (from a manual process that took hours).

● Implemented canonical URLs, sitemap generator, redirect & 404 routines, and more, increasing Google-indexed pages from ~80k to ~500k and improving search rankings.

● All in all I feel I contributed heavily to the company’s successful acquisition. 2/2013 – 9/2013: Operations Engineer @ Octoshape, Phoenix AZ, USA Worked with streaming video tech & CDN server config; QA for video clients & SDK's for web, iOS & Android; customer support ticketing system; coded plug-ins for Flash video players; acquired by Akamai.

Education

Bachelor of Arts in English

Western Michigan University, USA, 2001 – 2006

● 2005 Creative Writing Award for Drama

● 2004 National College Theatre Festival honoree

● 2003 Williams Scholarship

Notes

● Currently located in Austin, TX; open to on-site/hybrid/remote, but not relocation.

● Interests: Literature, languages, travel, chess, gardening, cooking, writing, music

(guitar), sports (soccer/futsal, badminton, touch rugby, ping pong, pickleball, tennis, golf, ultimate), hiking, camping …

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