Rob Berry
Senior Software Engineer at Depop
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Berry is a senior software engineer based in London with 16 years of experience building backend services, platform infrastructure, and orchestration tooling, with Python as his strongest language. He is pragmatic and technology‑agnostic, comfortable choosing the right tool for the problem—whether FastAPI and Python RPCs, Java Spring Boot, or Terraform for IaC. His recent roles span fast‑moving startups and acquisitions, contributing to performance improvements, distributed event‑driven systems, and platform reliability. He has a taste for “devops” and system orchestration, often operating at the intersection of application code and infrastructure. An active contributor to an ecosystem outside his main stack, he has enhanced a Haskell GitHub API client by adding pull request and review comment support, showing curiosity across languages. Known for craftsmanship from agency work to engineering leadership, he blends hands‑on coding with pragmatic system design.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Beng Internet and Multimedia Engineering, Beng Internet and Multimedia Engineering at London South Bank University
Github Skills (5)
rest-api10
github-api10
haskell10
data-modeling9
functional-programming9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
haskell-github/github
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
The github API for Haskell
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 4 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Rob primarily focused on enhancing the Haskell-based GitHub API client. Their contributions involved implementing and refining API endpoints related to pull requests and review comments. The user's work included restructuring code, defining data models, and adding support for interacting with GitHub's review functionalities. Additionally, they reorganized the structure of the code by renaming some functions and changing the order of fields.
haskellrest-api
rob-b/gutenhasktags
Jun 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 1 year 2 months
vim-pluginneovimvim
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