Rob Smith Email & Phone Number

Austin, TX, US

Austin, TX

Austin, Texas, United States

Led organization of 57 cross-functional FTEs (38 in Engineering reporting chain) comprising five teams in Austin, Seattle, and Hyderabad. Supplemented by three offshore contracting teams in India and Central AmericaTechnical lead for Financial System to integrate with a chat AI to retrieve invoicing data via GraphQL Successfully launched on schedule a new.

Engineering Lead for transforming Indeed’s 10 year old, million+ lines of code legacy homegrown billing and ordering system to modern industry standard systemDrove architectural shift for a new billing platform to scale from 30M daily events to 500M daily events, allowing end of month close to happen 90% faster. It supports 1.1mm invoices per month and 8B+.

Austin, Texas Area

• Directed the Dealer to Customer Electronic Trading Platform and Performance engineering groups responsible for 85 deployed software components with geographically diverse offices spanning New York City, Austin.
• Built a cross‑functional team of over 25 people across developers, testers, and program management
• Managed implementation and delivery of over 200 projects by driving high-level requirements gathering and design using best practices for a given project: agile, iterative, waterfall, and lean
• Responsible for the career growth of three technical leads and two managers
• 12 direct reports and 13 indirect reports in local and remote offices
• Reduced project lengths by 40% by implementing metrics backed improvements in software development to provide consistent and repeatable high-quality product delivery with practices such as cross‑functional teams, code.

• Parallelized order book handling to allow for faster performance and improved parallelization, improving order times from 10’s of milliseconds to 1 millisecond
• Implemented real-time prices and orders intake for eSpeed, MX, iSwap, Brokertec, and Dealerweb - allowing for price publishing fewer than 50 microseconds and order processing under a millisecond
• Mentoring and teaching developers for design, code, testability, and release quality
• Reworked the core trading library to implement changing of prices, with dynamic strategies based on market, security type, and risk tolerance across the trading platform
• Created an internal model for how to work with Interest Rate Swaps across 15 exchanges and handle all the Dodd-Frank SEF regulations
• Created an automation framework for installation at customer locations and reused for developer testing across a 30-person team

• Lead client side developer for a team about six employees and 9 contractors.
• Tasked with improving client data synchronization to improve scalability, reliability, and cross product integration.
• Designed and implemented email security, search, and storage management integration in the new Outlook plug-in (C++) and backend web services (Java).
• Implemented many features in web based application of the EMS product.

• Successfully architected and implemented the new central business functionality, specifically focusing on the Citrix marketplace.
• Designed and implemented real time agent based data collection framework.
• Designed and architected the subscriptions and alerting portion of the product, using email, syslog, and Remedy integration.
• Responsible for redesigning core Java architecture.
• Beginning migration from a JDO based framework to using Spring and Hibernate.

• Lead a team of five developers to build brand new technology from the ground up using embedded Linux, low level C, and Java.
• Designed and architected the product which is database backed with a CLI and web based management tool.
• Responsible for choosing technology and mentoring others in the usage.
• Designed and developed dynamic driver and resource loading for automated data collection and error detection framework.
• Implemented the product internals for communicating to other devices via serial, telnet, and SSH.
• Responsible for core Java architecture and framework programming

• Improving stability and scalability of the ad serving software and architecture
• Migrating components to the.Net framework

• Extended the Retrospect product to backup SQL and Exchange Servers
• Designed a.Net API to wrap existing backup engine
• Mentored developers in the use of internal technology

• Designed and developed TCP/IP communication layer and database communication layer to a Java based GUI admin tool
• Designed and implemented a prototype virtual file system for Linux that spans across multiple partitions and physical devices
• Implemented a network lock manager (NLM) for a virtual NAS file system
• Created a prototype Java admin tool for a virtual NAS file system
• Developed a mount daemon for a network file system (NFS)

• eCommerce Team - Designed and implemented a scalable, international, web-based high-end eCommerce catalog system for an N-tier environment
• Targeted a variety of platforms: AIX, Windows Servers, Solaris
• Catalog application design was database neutral, allowing it to work with Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, and Informix
• Designed, documented, and created APIs for consultants and third parties to extend the catalog system