Bobby Wallace
Director at Absalom BV
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolBobby Wallace is a seasoned technology director and hands-on architect with over two decades of experience guiding engineering teams from startups to Fortune 100s, now based in Amsterdam. He excels at translating product purpose into simple, performant architectures that minimize technical debt and prioritize customer experience. Known for removing obstacles to delivery, he has led large platform replacements, migrated legacy web systems to modern stacks, and established organizational best practices and KPIs. Bobby blends leadership with practical coding—contributing to open-source projects like streamio-ffmpeg and EvaporateJS, improving media tooling and AWS multipart upload reliability. He builds inclusive, low-friction teams that grow skills while shipping reliable, secure systems. A pragmatist at heart, he favors the fewest bricks needed to create strong, user-focused products.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Political Science, French, BS, Political Science, French at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologySalem Academy, Salem Oregon
English, Dutch, French
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Github Skills (15)
aws-s310
rspec10
javascript10
md510
metadata10
parsing10
ffmpeg10
api-design10
ruby10
capistrano6
php6
mongodb6
amazon-web-services6
amazon-s36
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
TTLabs/EvaporateJS
Dec 2015 - Oct 2017
Javascript library for browser to S3 multipart resumable uploads
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:341 commits, 176 PRs, 211 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Bobby primarily contributed to enhancing the core functionality of the JavaScript library `evaporatejs`, designed for browser-based resumable uploads to S3. Their work involved refactoring existing code, specifically related to calculating MD5 digests for upload parts, handling error responses, and improving the overall efficiency of the upload process by including multi-part support. The contributions span the core logic of the JavaScript library, including adding support for AWS V4 signing which indicates a focus on AWS interactions.
javascriptmultipartresumable-upload
streamio/streamio-ffmpeg
Oct 2014 - Mar 2017
Simple yet powerful ruby ffmpeg wrapper for reading metadata and transcoding movies
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:61 commits, 51 PRs, 38 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Bobby primarily contributed to the `streamio/streamio-ffmpeg` project by addressing code deprecations and enhancing its functionality. Their work involved refactoring code, specifically replacing deprecated methods and improving coding standards. The user also focused on improving the metadata extraction process by implementing enhancements related to the use of `ffprobe`, updating specs and correcting errors related to multiple screenshots.
ffmpegrubytranscoding
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