David Ryland Scott Robinson

• work@drsr.me
• GitHub: quad
• +61 456 001 555
• +1 (206) 229-9142
• +886 978 571 974

• Founding engineer for a new line of business; coordinated embedded, mobile, and server engineering efforts.

• Redesigned internal infrastructure and tools to unlock the rapid growth of a globally distributed workforce.
• Built scaleable machine-learning systems to control fraud for a leading consumer payments platform.

• Lived in an exclusively Mandarin speaking environment.
• Obtained Level Three (Advanced) in the Test of Chinese as a Foreign Language.

• Led software delivery projects, in both English and Mandarin, for partners ranging from startups, NGOs, and corporations.
• Established office culture, helped scale from ~5 to 20+ consultants, closed and grew key accounts during expansion into the South-East Asian market.
• Wrote and deployed code across a mix of tech stacks including Rails, iOS, Android, Symfony, Spring, ASP.NET and a variety of PaaS and IaaS.
• Advanced free and open-source efforts by effecting policy change, community outreach, and direct contribution.
• Developed interactive course teaching test-driven development used on multiple continents with hundreds of students.
• Mentored individuals, taught groups sizes up to 50+ from mixed cultural backgrounds on organizational change, emerging technologies, and development process.

Audited and rebuilt the operating system for a heart defect detector in human testing.

• Increased velocity and reliability by automating the operating system's build and test process.
• Improved user experience by increasing audio subsystem quality and reducing latency.
• Sped up test and validation by introducing emulated device environments.
• Kept vendor provided I/O drivers inline with continued Linux kernel changes.

Inadvertently circumnavigated. Kept writing code.

• Wrote a photo uploader robust to developing-world Internet connections.
• Contributed to the Eventlet concurrent networking library.
• Put together an e-mail driven daily journal interface to a blogging web service.
• Inspired by a Eurovision artist, made an app to call faraway friends with the music of your choice.
• Added the JSON frontend to the Notmuch full-text mail indexer.

Lead developer on the management interface for unreleased Windows system and service orchestration tooling.

• Designed compilers, translators and analysis tools for interoperation with external data sources.
• Improved team collaboration by introducing wikis, direct mentoring, and an internal and external talk series.

• "Keep Dreaming: Cyber Arms Control is Not a Viable Policy Option"
  with T. Burgers, S+F Security and Peace, Volume 36 (2018), Issue 4
• "Networked Authoritarianism Is on the Rise"
  with T. Burgers, S+F Security and Peace, Volume 34 (2016), Issue 4
• "Community"
  The Future of Digital Conference, Sydney, November 2014
• "Cyberwarfare offensive yields asymmetrical advantage"
  with T. Burgers, Strategic Vision (Vol. 2, Special 2), Taipei, December 2013
• "DevOps is people: or, 'I achieve my KPIs by making you fail to meet yours.'"
  Agile Tour, Hong Kong, December 2012