Summary
Rob Kandel is a software engineering manager with 11 years of experience who leads a six-person team responsible for the partner affiliation experience used by over 500 external partners at TrueCar. He combines deep front-end expertise in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React/Next and GraphQL with backend experience in Python and Ruby on Rails, and has shipped cross-platform apps with React Native. Known for data-driven decision making, Rob emphasizes well-tested, maintainable code and the development of reusable component libraries to accelerate delivery. He excels at cross-team collaboration with product owners and stakeholders to meet deadlines while balancing onshore and offshore engineers. With a background in media and multimedia projects, he brings a practical storytelling sensibility to UX and developer documentation. Based in Los Angeles, he enjoys solving hard problems and learning new technologies that improve reliability and scale.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Communication and Media Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Communication and Media Studies at Muhlenberg College