Rob A. Email & Phone Number

Berkeley, CA, US

San Francisco, California, United States

Menlo Park, California, United States

• Node Privacy Team Lead
• Led a newly formed team from zero to six members with the goal of modernizing privacy identity and privacy policy evaluation for Meta's backend services and tools.
• Created interface between backend and frontend services to facilitate privacy-aware interoperability.
• Enabled key customers in ads and payments to meet privacy regulatory compliance goals.

Menlo Park, California, United States

• SmartPlatform Control Plane Team Lead
• Led the team effort for configuration automation to simplify internal backend service management.
• Scaled the platform 100x in a year while still providing a safe and high-quality user experience for customers.

Menlo Park, California, United States

• Oculus Desktop Client & Application Framework Team Lead
• Supported the app purchase/install and hardware setup user flows for the Oculus DK2, Rift, and Rift S headsets on PCs. Multiple media articles praised the setup process for how easy it was.
• Coordinated cross functional efforts to deliver a unified hardware & software product vision on schedule.

Dallas, Texas, United States

• Oculus Mobile SDK Team
• Supported the launch of the Gear VR headset with Samsung
• Build prototypes using the mobile SDK to demonstrate and advance its featureset.

Palo Alto & Menlo Park, California, United States

• Android/WebKit Expert
• Developed Android/WebKit mastery (1 of 2 in the whole company) with a focus in graphics, animation, and scrolling performance.
• As the company’s Android Video expert, helped Messenger and Instagram launch video support.
• Created C++/OpenGL framework to use above mastery for improved user experience, which I integrated into Facebook’s newsfeed and the Messenger app.
• Proved declarative animations/UI were a viable technical path for future product design via aforementioned framework.
• Created the first prototype of React Native on Android.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Masters in Computer Science in the Principles of Programming group.Created the C0 programming language, a simplified variant of C intended to teach introductory data structures. This language was used in CMU's curriculum following my graduation for many years.

Work mostly on miscellaneous graphics and Windows integration bits including the Aero Peek and Aero Glass features (shipped in Firefox 4.0).

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Undergraduate in Computer Science

Santa Clara, California, United States

Worked on CUDA before its initial public release

San Jose, California, United States

San Jose, California, United States