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Robert Davis
Staff Software Engineer specializing in backend and distributed systems
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Backend engineer who co-launched SkyKick’s Office 365 SharePoint/Exchange backup product, built the MVP, and then architected and led its design for 9 years. Stands out for high-scale systems expertise, including an algorithmic redesign that cut cloud costs by an order of magnitude, plus earlier experience integrating speech recognition systems in noisy real-world customer environments.
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Key Strengths
- owned a backup product from MVP through 9 years of architecture and product leadership
- reduced cloud spend by an order of magnitude through algorithm and storage/query redesign
- deep expertise in high-scale backend systems
- strong performance optimization from O(n) to O(log(n))
- pragmatic tradeoff judgment between speed to market and long-term scalability
- designed production systems under Microsoft throttling constraints
- effective ambiguity handling through prototyping and option framing
- strong observability and debugging discipline
- experience resolving complex data corruption issues in production
- early applied ML/speech recognition integration experience with model retraining and vendor evaluation
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