Bobby Macdonald
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Ilya Tsarev
I worked with Bobby for about 8 months on the Dashboards team. He consistently displayed solid technical expertise and a strong passion for making high-quality software during that time. He successfully tackled complex problems in the multi-service environment and found creative solutions to improve customer experience. Bobby has strong coding skills and, as a true full-stack developer, feels comfortable in frontend and backend codebases. He greatly helped his team by taking a Scrum Master role that included driving all the sprint ceremonies and visualizing our work. During his time at Smartsheet, Bobby onboarded several team members, improved our internal tools, and has been a great communicator when it came to supporting his team members or presenting his work. He's very articulate, engaged, and reliable. Bobby strikes a good balance between his commitment to the team's success and his dedication to mastering the tools necessary for performing his job effectively as an engineer.
Ilya Tsarev
I worked with Bobby for about 8 months on the Dashboards team. He consistently displayed solid technical expertise and a strong passion for making high-quality software during that time. He successfully tackled complex problems in the multi-service environment and found creative solutions to improve customer experience. Bobby has strong coding skills and, as a true full-stack developer, feels comfortable in frontend and backend codebases. He greatly helped his team by taking a Scrum Master role that included driving all the sprint ceremonies and visualizing our work. During his time at Smartsheet, Bobby onboarded several team members, improved our internal tools, and has been a great communicator when it came to supporting his team members or presenting his work. He's very articulate, engaged, and reliable. Bobby strikes a good balance between his commitment to the team's success and his dedication to mastering the tools necessary for performing his job effectively as an engineer.
Ilya Tsarev
I worked with Bobby for about 8 months on the Dashboards team. He consistently displayed solid technical expertise and a strong passion for making high-quality software during that time. He successfully tackled complex problems in the multi-service environment and found creative solutions to improve customer experience. Bobby has strong coding skills and, as a true full-stack developer, feels comfortable in frontend and backend codebases. He greatly helped his team by taking a Scrum Master role that included driving all the sprint ceremonies and visualizing our work. During his time at Smartsheet, Bobby onboarded several team members, improved our internal tools, and has been a great communicator when it came to supporting his team members or presenting his work. He's very articulate, engaged, and reliable. Bobby strikes a good balance between his commitment to the team's success and his dedication to mastering the tools necessary for performing his job effectively as an engineer.
Ilya Tsarev
I worked with Bobby for about 8 months on the Dashboards team. He consistently displayed solid technical expertise and a strong passion for making high-quality software during that time. He successfully tackled complex problems in the multi-service environment and found creative solutions to improve customer experience. Bobby has strong coding skills and, as a true full-stack developer, feels comfortable in frontend and backend codebases. He greatly helped his team by taking a Scrum Master role that included driving all the sprint ceremonies and visualizing our work. During his time at Smartsheet, Bobby onboarded several team members, improved our internal tools, and has been a great communicator when it came to supporting his team members or presenting his work. He's very articulate, engaged, and reliable. Bobby strikes a good balance between his commitment to the team's success and his dedication to mastering the tools necessary for performing his job effectively as an engineer.
Experience
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Smartsheet
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Software Engineer
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Aug 2020 - Present
• Delivered a critical feature under a tight deadline for a high ARR customer, a key part in helping expand business within their company and industry sector • Implemented a widget feature that enables users to cut, copy, paste, and move multiple dashboard components simultaneously, fulfilling a long-standing user request and improving the dashboard's functionality • Successfully led an internal hackathon project resulting in the creation of a new feature for displaying date-based data in a timeline format on a dashboard. Recognized by C-suite executives as a key driver of customer retention • Converted highly ambiguous feedback from enterprise customers and an external audit of our webpage into prioritized roadmap for making the dashboards feature area compliant with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines • Regularly adding to unit and browser-based test base to improve code coverage, striving towards 100% coverage • Periodically discovering and solving for bugs in codebases outside of my ownership areas to alleviate customer usability friction and prevent serious customer impact or loss of trust • Served as Scrum leader for a team of 10 engineers and led the migration from a legacy Jira system to Smartsheet's workflow, improving alignment with the customer experience and increasing team efficiency • Onboarded 4 more-senior-leveled new hires and set them up for success, enabling them to begin delivering value to the team in less than 4 weeks of ramp up time • Mentored intern/current entry-level engineer, helped them to seek out early technical leadership opportunities Show less
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Smartsheet
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Software Development Intern
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Jun 2019 - Sep 2019
• Delivered Sheet Summary Metric Widget for Smartsheet dashboards / Called out by Chief Product Officer at ENGAGE - annual Smartsheet user conference ENGAGE 2019 Keynote • Migrated multiple 500+ line classes from JavaScript to the latest TypeScript technology for increased type safety of code base with compile-time type checking and transpile optimizations • Delivered Sheet Summary Metric Widget for Smartsheet dashboards / Called out by Chief Product Officer at ENGAGE - annual Smartsheet user conference ENGAGE 2019 Keynote • Migrated multiple 500+ line classes from JavaScript to the latest TypeScript technology for increased type safety of code base with compile-time type checking and transpile optimizations
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Sigma Chi Fraternity
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United States
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Civic and Social Organizations
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400 - 500 Employee
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Technology Chair
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Apr 2018 - Jun 2019
• Influenced the move from a cloud-provider LAMP stack to an auto-scaling EC2 environment in AWS • Maintained the custom voting website that services 100+ simultaneous active connections for any generalized or specialized voting activity / Triaged and dealt with bugs in real time • Continue to support as needed as external resource • Influenced the move from a cloud-provider LAMP stack to an auto-scaling EC2 environment in AWS • Maintained the custom voting website that services 100+ simultaneous active connections for any generalized or specialized voting activity / Triaged and dealt with bugs in real time • Continue to support as needed as external resource
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Santa Clara University
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Information Desk Attendant/Student Lead - Communications Supervisor
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Aug 2017 - Apr 2019
• Send weekly emails to keep staff informed of upcoming events on campus, and other pertinent information • Train new Information Desk hires • Manage the content of slides and advertisements displayed on monitors throughout the building • Send weekly emails to keep staff informed of upcoming events on campus, and other pertinent information • Train new Information Desk hires • Manage the content of slides and advertisements displayed on monitors throughout the building
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Decathlon Sports Club
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United States
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Advertising Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Counselor
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Jun 2013 - Jul 2017
• Taught and coached sports via four to six activity rotations throughout a 7-hour day • Developed good sportsmanship by modeling respect and fairness • Resolved disputes among young competitors • Taught and coached sports via four to six activity rotations throughout a 7-hour day • Developed good sportsmanship by modeling respect and fairness • Resolved disputes among young competitors
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Education
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2016 - 2020
Santa Clara University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Music Minor
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