# Rob Park > Test-driven. Lean/Agile. Architect. Tennis player. Dog lover. Location: Waltham, Massachusetts, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/robpark I’m a staff-level software engineer and technical leader with 25+ years of experience building, evolving, and stabilizing production systems that consistently meet high standards of reliability, performance, and maintainability. My strengths are a cross of **hands-on engineering and team-level leadership**. I lead by example: designing systems, writing code, improving delivery practices, and helping teams make better technical decisions faster through quality and flow. I’ve worked across the stack, but most recently focus on **cloud-native, serverless, and event-driven architectures on AWS**, with deep experience in: * Backend systems (Python, Ruby, JavaScript/TypeScript) * APIs (REST, GraphQL) * Infrastructure as Code (CDK, Terraform) * CI/CD, reliability, and operational maturity I’m first and foremost **test-driven** (TDD/ATDD), and I care a lot about **flow, quality, and sustainability**, drawing heavily from Deming, Lean, and modern delivery metrics (DORA, flow metrics). I’m often the person teams lean on to untangle complex systems, reduce risk, and raise the technical bar without slowing delivery. More recently, I’ve been actively embracing **AI-assisted development** (Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT) as a force multiplier; using it to accelerate delivery, improve design clarity, and increase feedback loops while maintaining engineering rigor. I gravitate toward environments where thoughtful engineering, disciplined delivery, and continual learning are valued. I care deeply about building systems and teams that improve over time, and I take pride in doing work that is reliable, understandable, and built to last. ## Work Experience ### Staff Engineer @ Pronto Housing Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, NY Engineering lead for backend and serverless systems powering a workflow automation platform. Python | Django | AWS | Serverless | CI/CD | DevOps | Observability | AI-Accelerated Development * Led development of Django and AWS serverless components for a workflow automation platform. * Owned backend services end-to-end in a lean engineering environment. * Improved CI/CD and automated testing, reducing build friction and speeding up deployments. * Increased system reliability through ECS stabilization, structured logging, and enhanced monitoring. * Maintained SOC2 readiness (Vanta, Astra, Dependabot, IAM hardening). * Integrated GenAI and Cursor.ai into daily workflows to accelerate planning, coding, and testing. * Applied flow metrics and Jira analytics to guide data-informed engineering improvements. ### Staff Engineer @ Embark Veterinary Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Boston, MA Led a small team building event-driven AWS services for consumer genetic health. Typescript | AWS | Serverless | AppSync | DynamoDB | Cognito | CI/CD | Event-Driven Architecture * Led a small engineering team delivering event-driven microservices using AWS capabilities. * Built third-party integrations and an authentication/authorization service using AWS Cognito. * Drove adoption of reliable CI/CD practices and scalable architecture patterns. * Delivered backend services powering consumer genetic health products used by millions of dog owners. ### Senior Software Engineer, Backend @ Fi Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States Typescript | Node | Express | GraphQL | React | OpenSearch | Postgres | AWS * Added backend paging logic for friend-list APIs (Typescript/Node/Express/GraphQL). * Enhanced internal admin tools (React/OpenSearch) for managing remote IoT devices. * Delivered visual battery-life metrics and device health insights. * Improved device-tracking features leveraging Google Maps with attention to cost efficiency. ### Staff Engineer @ HubHero Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Waltham, Massachusetts, United States Software Delivery (Ruby, Rails, VueJs, Typescript, Python, AWS, Serverless, Redshift) Doing lots of hands-on work with AWS especially with serverless services and with managed database services (e.g. Lambda, Glue, ECS, Aurora, Redshift). Also writing a lot of code in Ruby (including Rails, Lambda functions and scripts) and in JavaScript as well. CI&CD setup through SemaphoreCI and TerraformCloud. ### Consultant @ 4 Legs Software Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Waltham, MA CI/CD, DevOps, and XP/Agile Consulting * Symphonia — Delivery consultant & DevOps specialist — Multiple projects * Praxis Flow — Visiting Scientist — Multiple projects Working with the Praxis Flow team in areas including team organization, process flow, and development capability improvement. * Lean Dog — Tech lead, delivery specialist — June 2018 – September 2018 ### VP, Engineering @ Intent Media Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | New York, NY Responsible for teams involved in data ingestion services, data science, and other internal tooling. Responsible for Information Security, Technical Operations, and IT services. Software Creator - multiple languages Oct 2015 - Dec 2016: Director, Engineering Jul 2015 - Oct 2015: Senior Engineering Lead ### Software Architect @ EyeNetra Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Somerville, MA Software development of systems for making eye care far more accessible around the world. Leading a small team in delivering a telemedicine application with an Ember front-end and a Rails backend, all running on AWS. ### Consultant @ 4 Legs Software Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Waltham, MA * Providing software development in Ruby (Rails) and JavaScript (Ember) * Providing coaching and mentoring around test-driven practices with Ruby and Cucumber * Providing coaching and mentoring around development process including XP and Kanban ### Principal Quality Engineer @ Constant Contact Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Waltham, MA As a part of the Continuous Delivery team, we are helping enable all other delivery teams to advance their delivery pipelines. We are working on creating more of a devops culture within the company. We are improving tooling (e.g. Puppet, orchestration, Jenkins). We are also assisting with team agility and test-driven practices. ### Senior Agile Consultant & Release Engineer @ McKesson Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Broomfield, CO & Newton, MA Team dev doing Java on the server side, Flex client side, and Groovy for acceptance testing with easyb. Occasionally chiming in with respect to lean, kanban and other process observations Release Engineer from January 2013 - August 2013. Focus on builds, releases, deployments and automated testing. ## Education ### BS CSE in Computer & Systems Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ### Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) in Finance, General Boston University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/robpark-4ls - Website: https://www.4legssoftware.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/robpark JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/robpark/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22