Robert King
Principal Infrastructure Engineer at Lose It!
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolRobert King is a Principal Infrastructure Engineer based in Boston with 12 years of experience building resilient backend systems and developer tooling. He progressed from mobile and visualization work (3D street-level imagery and iOS SDKs at earthmine/HERE) into infrastructure leadership at Lose It!, where he scaled platform services and production tooling. His background blends electrical and computer engineering research in high-resolution visualization with hands-on experience in C#, mobile development, and cloud-native infrastructure. Robert has a history of shipping cross-platform mobile apps for social good (Farepath) while also driving internal data-processing systems at larger companies like Nokia/HERE and Audible. He pairs deep technical execution with an educator’s curiosity—maintaining personal iOS projects and K–12 outreach interests rooted in his graduate research. His career shows a pattern of moving from device-level visualization to operationalizing large-scale data pipelines and developer infrastructure.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Engineering, Master of Science Computer Engineering at University of Maine
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Github Skills (54)
slack-api10
amazon-echo10
amazon10
ios9
ruby9
barcode-scanner9
android-app9
android9
golang9
automation9
slack9
android-apps9
go8
driver8
fastlane8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
rking788/destiny-gear-vendor
Jun 2017 - Sep 2020
A converter from the geometry and texture files provided by Bungie to a format usable in Xcode.
Contributions:1 PR, 35 pushes, 15 branches in 3 years 3 months
bungietextureswiftusablegeometry
rking788/guardian-helper
Mar 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:115 commits, 28 pushes, 13 branches in 7 months
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