Robert Gravina Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Continued as Senior Software Engineer for VMware by Broadcom after Broadcom acquired VMware in November 2023. Continued under a transitional agreement until 31st August 2024.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

* Relocated to Australia, where I continued to work with clients and colleagues in ANZ and APJ as a consulting software engineer.

Tokyo, Japan

* Continued contributing as a Software Engineer in VMware Tanzu Labs consulting projects.* Helped deliver XP Practices and Principles workshops* Conducted interviews for new Labs Software Engineers* Helped mentor new developers joining Labs

* Continued with Pivotal Labs consulting work under the new VMware Pivotal Labs name.* Worked on internal VMware products with a distributed and remote team.* Presented about the Labs software development process to the public.

Tokyo, Japan

* Full time pair-program with clients and other Pivotal engineers on high-profile products in a range of sectors including government, automotive, airline, shipping and finance. * Practice Test Driven Development in many different programming languages and frameworks on both the front-end, back-end and native mobile platforms. Commonly used languages include Java, Kotlin, Swift, Python, Javascript and Typescript.* Work with client developers to enable them to deliver software using the Extreme Programming process.* Work in balanced teams of product managers, designers and developers to deliver value to end-users.* Co-facilitate Extreme Programming training workshops, including practical test-driven-development exercises, and discussions about XP values, principles and practices.* On some projects work on-site at client offices in the APAC region.

Tokyo, Japan

* Core member of the developer portal team, working on a single-page Coffeescript and Ruby on Rails application designed to help mobile and IoT developers develop, debug and monitor their production cloud (MBaaS) applications.* Improved the codebase on both front and back-end, resulting in a successful redesign and relaunch in less than a year.* Migrated from Backbone.js and jQuery to a modern view framework for the front-end (Ractive.js).* Developed Ember.js and Node.js applications using the Kii Cloud Javascript SDK.* Wrote sample applications and tutorials on using Kii Cloud for developers new to the platform.* Used several programming languages aside from Javascript, Coffeescript and Ruby - including Java, Go and Swift - for server side tooling, automated integration testing with Selenium, and writing sample iOS applications using the Kii Cloud SDK.* Worked in an agile, multilingual team based in Europe, Asia and North America in both Japanese and English (both languages used daily).

Tokyo, Japan

* Maintained large Ruby on Rails codebase (online language learning) and contributed to extending, refactoring and optimising the codebase and porting features from an older PHP legacy system.* Developed Paypal and GMO (convenience store) payment integrations, enabling millions of yen in direct to customer sales.* Reduced operations support times by developing a data warehouse of student study data (SQL-based ETL) and rich web-based UI.* Worked as the Tokyo-based liaison with the UK development team, and helped reduce open bugs from over 100 to 25 in three months.* Used Agile to specify and deliver features.

Tokyo, Japan

* Developed a Ruby on Rails based software tool to assist non-programmers in developing Mixi (OpenSocial) applications (e.g. Twitter clients, etc).* Used Agile to specify and deliver features.

Sydney, Australia

• Developed two large Plone-based CMS products for a large workers union and community radio station.• Contributed to other projects in Drupal, Django, and PHP.• Worked on an online campaign system in Django designed to be integrated into other web applications.• Worked in small agile teams including producers, designers and developers.* Maintained projects freelance from Nov 2008

Melbourne, Australia

* Large legacy system redevelopment project using the Jade software platform (integrated language, deployment environment and IDE). * Worked in a fairly large team, closely working with business analysts and other developers to deliver features.

Master Of Engineering, Computer Science

Studied in a laboratory focussing on software tools and development environments where I completed a Masters thesis: Pyrope - a framework.

Bachelor Of Science / Bachelor Of Information Systems, Computer Science

Participated in an exchange program to Tokyo Institute of Technology (Centre for R&D in Educational Technology) 2003-2004