Staff-level full-stack engineer and engineering leader with 20+ years building pragmatic systems in commerce/payments, analytics, and developer tooling.
- Recently: independent consulting (OAuth2 refactors, applied LLM/RAG prototypes)
- Previously: Staff Engineer (Invative/Blissy), Director/EM (BrightBytes), Senior Engineer (VerticalResponse)
- I care about: clear architecture, fast feedback loops, and UX that makes the right thing easy
- Multi-tenant commerce and payment routing (rules engines, state machines)
- High-throughput tracking/analytics pipelines and ingestion services
- Internal tooling and dashboards for operations/support teams
- Frontend systems and design systems (I started in interface design)
- 100K+ monthly transactions at <200ms API latency (commerce platform)
- Reduced fraud ~25% via intelligent payment routing
- Cut AWS spend 86% ($50K -> $7K/month) through architecture and operations changes
- Scaled tracking throughput 1000x; delivered 99.9% uptime ingestion services; improved ML/ETL throughput 30x
- trello-list-filter - Chrome extension to filter lists on Trello
- pr-sanity - improves pull request readability
- coding-prompts-tui - terminal UI for building project prompts
- sql-cms - workflow CMS for SQL data import/export/transform
- Website: https://buckleyrobinson.com
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/evilbuck
- Email: buck@hey.com