# Rob White

> Staff Software Engineer at Otto

Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/robwhite

Hi! I'm a full stack developer with 15+ years experience in professional development. I’m currently working BE in Typescript, PostgreSQL, and Redshift with domain expertise in payments with Stripe.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Otto
Jan 2023 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Otto
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023

### Senior Software Engineer @ Modernize
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Austin, TX, United States
- Technical lead for the AIO team - Led morning standup, participated in daily scrum of scrums meeting (engineering triage), member of engineering TASC team (company wide engineering triage/sprint priority).
- Developed new features (contractor sign-up, lead-processing, Five9 call-center interaction, performance tracking, Salesforce integration) and unit+acceptance tests (codeception) into main monolith API (Laravel 6.x, Doctrine) and legacy PHP API (in house framework for lead ingestion/routing).
- Lead migration from Lumen to Laravel (5.x) for main monolith API. Included setting up Laravel Horizon to manage existing redis queues.
- Developed a dynamic system to automate ad location targeting for marketing campaigns in Google Ads/Facebook Ads. The system provided the ability for the marketing team to fully manage parameters to determine coverage while internally optimizing for max revenue. Utilized Docker, Laravel (6.x, Doctrine), MySQL 5.7, Python 3.7.
- Developed a marketing platform agnostic click attribution tracking microservice to track clicks (pixel fires), conversion events, and lead creation events - all used for various revenue optimization across the company. Utilized Docker, Python 3.7, MySQL 5.7
- Developed an in house Python based ETL system (remote execution through Airflow) that manages 50+ ETLs for various applications across the company. Utilized Docker, Python (3.7, Django, Celery), MySQL 5.7, Slack API, AWS S3 API.
- Performed migration of error monitoring from Airbrake to Sentry for all internal codebases, set up the projects, alerts, and release configuration used for morning triage.
- Lead technical integration and research (feature + pricing comparison) for using a new 3rd party extension system (JAF) in the marketing team’s Eloqua campaigns.
- Mentored new hires and developed an all-in-one “Day-One” setup guide used by all new engineering hires allowing them to get their local environment setup and pushing code on their first day.

### Software Engineer @ Modernize
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Austin, Texas Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ Samsung Austin Semiconductor
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018
- Developed a machine learning pipeline with automatic model building, prediction, and deployment for defect image classification. Utilized Python (3.6, caffe), Laravel (5.5), Vue, SASS, and MariaDB.
- Built a wafer signature prediction app to automatically catch certain scratch signatures on wafers before they were shipped to the customer. Utilized Nvidia-Docker, Python (3.5, Tensorflow).
- Developed an audit app+web front-end to automate the summarization of factory system changes to prevent wafer loss. Utilized Python 3.6, Laravel (5.5), Vue, SASS, and MS-SQL.
- Developed Samsung management forum site to help VP/Managers gather anonymous feedback from employees with ability for employee voting and direct response from management. Utilized Laravel (5.5), Vue, SASS, and MS-SQL.
- Installed and set-up an internal Python PIP repository to hold locally developed Python Packages to allow for easier package installation in internal projects without corporate proxy.

### Software Engineer 2 @ Samsung Austin Semiconductor
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Austin, Texas
- Developed internal closed loop communication site, FIT (Fab Information Tracking). Built with Laravel (5.1), Vue, Node, Redis (for realtime chat/communication), MS-SQL, and created API (Dingo API) with JWT auth. 1 month sprints to release / 2 week sprints for feature updates.
- Developed a wafer map commonality website including filtering and the ability to composite multiple maps into a single map. Utilized Laravel (5.1), Vue, MS-SQL.
- Installed, setup, and evaluated Atlassian Stash (BitBucket) and Jira on Microsoft Server. Migrated all existing projects (pre-source control) to their own Stash projects.
- Admin for Stash instance, main pull request reviewer for code changes, train and integrate new hires into development stack.

### Software Engineer 1 @ Samsung Austin Semiconductor
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Austin, Texas Area
- Developer of app to analyze wafer map images (Hough Transform) for arc and circle scratches. Built using C#, MSSQL, jQuery, and d3.js. Overall feedback time was improved by 76%, wafer loss was reduced by 59%, and $3,009,600 was saved per year in costs.
- Developer and maintainer of a 20+ legacy web apps built with C#, jQuery+d3.js, and MSSQL that provide the Defect department with tools for defect data analysis.

### Samsung Software Engineer Intern @ Samsung Austin Semiconductor
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Austin, Texas
- Worked with jQuery, Dojo, HTML, SQL, and Ajax to provide a modern Web 2.0 style and feel
- Designed and built a lean database from the ground up in Microsoft Server. The database schema allowed for proper access to data and ease of future database expansion
- Built multiple programs in Python to automate the pulling of large sets data from intranet sites, saving Engineers valuable time needed for other tasks
- Built a standalone program in Python to merge 70+ PowerPoints into a single PowerPoint based on Information an Engineer enters


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
St.Edward's University
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/robertwhite4
- GitHub: https://github.com/rob-white

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Last updated: 2026-03-22