Robert Almada Email & Phone Number

Robert Almada is a Open to Work. Colleagues describe them as "Bob started a few weeks after me on the same team, fresh out of college. I was mid-career and he was just beginning his. Over the next 9 years, we worked together on various teams covering a wide range of tech. Starting out on the matchmaking team in the beginning, transitioning to a strike team where he provided incredible test coverage, digging into crash tickets and helping diagnose issues that affected the stability of our branches. He transitioned from an effective technical tester into an SDET that was improving our internal workflow pipelines. This covered a wide spectrum of technical domains, from client and tools automation, to internal test tools and workflows. Over the years, Bob gained an extensive amount of knowledge that significantly helped the test and engineering teams deliver quality. From improving our content tool automation to creating API's to interface with our test reporting systems, which was his most recent contribution to our QA efforts at Bungie. Bob created an API for TestRail and integrated it into our automation pipeline specifically to provide better test reporting to our QA team. Bob has impacted both small teams and the studio during his tenure at Bungie and will be a valuable asset to the next team/studio he is part of. I hope to work with Bob again in the future and would advocate to have him on my team." and "I managed Bob at Bungie while he was working on Marathon. I was shocked and saddened when he was selected for layoffs. If you are looking for a C# developer for Test or Infrastructure you should stop reading now and contact him. Over his tenure at Bungie he amassed a large store of knowledge, both general programming best practices and the intricacies of internal tooling. He was great at mining the knowledge in documentation and people, many of whom he had never met before, to solve complex problems. He worked closely with customers to refine results to make them useful to those customers. Was an ideal "first user" for new systems and APIs created internally. Other than sketching broad goals and weekly check-ins Bob needed little supervision and his velocity was consistently great. We were able to use a lot of our 1:1 time for professional development. Bob was engaged, asked great questions, and followed through with actions and significantly grew his skills in the last two years. We recently came out of a review cycle and I collected and summarized the feedback from his co-workers who worked closely with him. * Work has had major impact and will have even more in the future * Effective Communication and Collaboration * Implemented tailored solutions for customers * Excellent first customer for self-serve projects * Improvements in code well considered and good future proofing * Great job unblocking other people people * QA team would like more of his time"