Robert Webb

Tech lead for Modular Frontend - www.modular.com

First employee to work on frontend - built a team from the ground up including a SAAS, docsite, comic book and a builds showcase.

Worked across the stack creating scalable backend infrastructure, handling up to 125QPS during bursts of announcement traffic.

Created AI Model repository containing ~800 models at peak, using scraping, AI curation, and internal data sources

Revolutionized Blog post publishing with custom components, server side rendering and superior UX - has become defacto standard to publish blog posts at company - see substack post about it

Tech lead for Antologi Project - antologi.area120.com

Lead the creation of the Mobile Flutter app for an experimental, Area 120 project, from its inception. I lead two other mobile engineers, while working with 2 backend engineers and a ML engineer to ensure that our features would work together effectively. I was converted to Senior Software Engineer due to this effort.

Worked with the lead of the project, designers and other engineers to implement a production ready, first rate iOS+Android mobile app. We launched a dogfood to all of Google in November 2022 and were planning to launch to Netflix and Robert Morris University the week after our project was terminated.

Tech lead for Google Store Frontend - store.google.com

Lead a rewrite of the 8 year old Frontend Server into the new, Google Internal framework Boq Web + Wiz. We added server side, rendering, better tooling, test coverage, and removed a lot of legacy, mismatched architecture. I started with a team of 2 and then expanded until I was leading a team of 7, 3 of which I onboarded to Google and the tech myself. We improved the pagespeed score from 17/100 to 43/100. However the greatest improvement was the ease of development on the new tech stack, as I had many many improvements to DX in the process. Due to this multi-year effort, I was promoted twice to Senior UX Engineer (L5).

I was the go-to person for the Google Store frontend, where there were many stakeholders across multiple organizations. I would answer questions daily from engineers, project managers, marketing and engineering managers.

I implemented quite a bit of the stack too, for 3 years on gStore, I was submitting more change requests than any other engineer in the ~150 person organization. Additionally, I reviewed more changes than any other engineer in the organization for about a year.