Software Craftsman
Rob Byrne
Developer tooling, AI workflows, and full-stack products that ship safely with real resultsJobber, Shopify, Getty Images, Arc'teryx, and more...
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// 01 — ABOUT
building reliable production software that lets Product, Platform, Dev acceleration, AI tooling teams work togetherbuilding reliable production software that letsProductProductteams work together
// 02 — WORK
Selected work.Teams that shipped faster.
AI tooling that helps developers ship with less friction.
Built GraphQL guardrails that catch dangerous schema changes at every stage of development, from local work and AI-steered changes to commits and pull requests, so what gets built is correct. Improved the application deployment pipeline. Created AI tooling for custom development workflows. Built an artifact proxy that protects against compromised packages.
Senior Software Engineer
Building an AI image platform on a world-class library.
Developed and deployed features across Getty and iStock’s multi-site architecture. Migrated legacy features to modern React and NestJS layered architecture following team-defined ADRs, spanning Ruby on Rails, Angular, and the new stack. Strengthened testing coverage and CI pipeline reliability, and coached teammates on AI prompting, tool integration, and workflow automation.
Senior Software Engineer
Faster dev loops for the Point of Sale mobile team.
Empowered vendor teams through full-stack development in React Native, GraphQL and Rails. Led projects from inception to deployment across internal and external stakeholders. Built the end-to-end testing platform running tests on real devices, capturing run videos, suggesting fixes on failure, and retrying automatically. Improved retail mobile speed and resolved complex stability issues.
Intermediate Software Engineer
A sharper storefront and a single front door for sign-in.
Led a major navigation redesign, coordinating multiple teams to sharpen the user experience. Recruited to run high-priority identification system migrations, working with people from every slice of the company. Built scalable solutions with React, Next.js, AWS (CloudFront, S3, SST) and Auth0. Created mission control environments that kept critical issues moving to fast resolution.
Senior Software Engineer
A Rust trading platform, built and handed over.
Built a Rust trading platform as an event-sourced, event-driven system using domain-driven design and CQRSCommand Query Responsibility Segregation: separates reads from writes so each side can scale and evolve independently., creating a completely immutable record of every transaction. Encrypted both sides of each trade with elliptic-curve cryptography, with keys generated on secp256k1Used by Bitcoin and 1Password. Shipped successfully and approved by the BC Securities Commission.
Founding engineer
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// 03 — COMPANIES
Teams I've shipped with. Product, platform and AI work.
// 04 — STACK
Things I've built with React Native
Pick a stack, read the code, see what it shipped.
Sample code and motion in this section are illustrative demos, not production source or telemetry.
Sample code is illustrative,
not production source.
React Native
One codebase, tested on real devices.
iPhone · Pixel · iPadBrowserStack · demo
rn-device-tests.yml · ✓ 3/3 PASS · demo
// 05 — CONTACT
Let's ship the next thing together.
A project, a collaboration, or a quick hello. Write to me directly, or let your agent do it.
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