Roger King
Staff Software Engineer at Ro
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRoger King is a seasoned software engineer and engineering leader with 10+ years of experience delivering scalable, secure applications across startups and growth-stage teams. As Staff Software Engineer at Ro and former Head of Engineering at Balanced, he has built and led cross-functional teams, shaped interview processes, and steered architecture for HIPAA and SOC2-compliant, cloud-native systems. He specializes in end-to-end product delivery across React/TypeScript, GraphQL, Go, and cloud infrastructure (GCP, Terraform), with a focus on event-driven architectures and Kafka. His impact includes an 80% improvement in signup acquisition, a 20% uplift in engagement through personalized dashboards, and rapid deployment of live class streaming and clinician tools. Based in the New York City metropolitan area, he combines hands-on development with strategic roadmapping to turn ambitious product goals into auditable, secure solutions.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics and Computer Science at Purchase College, SUNYIona Preparatory
Tagalog, English
Github Skills (115)
expressjs10
bots10
sms10
javascript10
theming10
modularity10
tidy10
facebook-messenger10
alexa-skills-kit10
chat-bot10
accessibility10
grommet10
responsiveness10
facebook10
microsoft-teams10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
roger-king/gen-reacts-app
May 2017 - Apr 2019
A react.js web frontend full suite solution. It aims to provide you a streamline process from development to production!
Contributions:363 commits, 8 PRs, 327 pushes in 1 year 11 months
streamlinereactjs-webreact-jsfrontend
OpenOpsDev/stitch
Jan 2021 - Feb 2021
CLI tool help stitch together your application for development
Contributions:6 releases, 46 commits, 17 PRs in 1 month
cli-toolstitchcli
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