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Robert Hodgen
Principal Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native distributed systems
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Former startup co-founder/CTO who built a student-opportunity platform from scratch and engineered a real-time, Google-like search experience despite database limitations. Also brings deep modernization experience, including migrating legacy enterprise systems to containerized microservices and delivering major search-performance gains on 20+ year-old databases using CDC and OpenSearch.
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Key Strengths
- Startup CTO experience as co-founder and sole technical builder
- Architected and launched products end-to-end
- Search and relevance engineering
- Legacy monolith to microservices modernization
- Strong full-stack web application delivery
- Cloud-native deployment and CI/CD automation
- Database optimization across large legacy SQL systems
- Pragmatic service boundary design and performance tuning
- B2B SaaS product development in HCM/workforce scheduling
- Engineering leadership for greenfield product teams
- Strong SQL and data migration expertise
- Uses domain-driven design and CQRS for complex workflows
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