Rob Mclarty
Senior Software Engineer at Minga
Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolRob Mclarty is a Senior Software Engineer based in Kelowna with over a decade of experience building scalable full-stack systems and shipping production-ready products across startups and enterprise clients. He has led architecture and refactoring efforts that turned MVPs into robust SPAs and APIs, designed AWS VPC and containerized infrastructures that supported high MAU and real-time autoscaling, and reduced technical debt to measurably improve performance and reliability. As a hands-on engineering leader he’s delivered game and SaaS releases, trained ML models to enhance in-game behaviours, and helped grow teams through hiring, mentoring, and documentation programs that cut onboarding time in half. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved popular React components like react-dropzone by refining APIs and rendering logic, reflecting a pragmatic focus on usability and code clarity. With a background in cognitive science and graphic design, he brings a rare blend of product empathy, security-first thinking, and visual sensibility to engineering challenges.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Illustration & Graphic Design, Diploma, Illustration & Graphic Design at Sheridan CollegeBachelor's, Cognitive Science, Bachelor's, Cognitive Science at University of Toronto
French, English
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Github Skills (14)
drag-and-drop10
javascript10
react10
ruby-on-rails9
rubygems9
file-upload9
filename8
html7
passenger6
belongsto6
activerecord6
background-image6
ruby6
nested-attributes6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
react-dropzone/react-dropzone
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Simple HTML5 drag-drop zone with React.js.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Rob contributed to the React-based drag-and-drop component by adding features and improving code readability. They implemented properties for controlling element sizing and refactored the render function for enhanced clarity. The user also introduced a conditional approach for applying styles and removed a prop, demonstrating a focus on refining component functionality and usability within the React framework.
dropzonereactdrag-and-dropfile-upload
robmclarty/soko
Dec 2017 - Jul 2020
A toolbox of cli tools for building and running javascript applications.
Contributions:58 commits, 2 PRs, 41 pushes in 2 years 7 months
cli-toolsjavascript
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