Rob Whelan
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorRob Whelan is a seasoned founder and software leader based in Austin with a decade of experience building data and cloud-native solutions. As founder of Gridway AI, he leads generative AI for nuclear licensing, helping regulatory teams save time and improve accuracy. He also leads Big Cloud Country, driving AWS-centric, data-driven capabilities. His career spans leadership roles at 2ndWatch, Cloudreach, GE, Rhinogram, and the US Navy, reflecting a rare blend of defense, energy, healthcare, and enterprise cloud. Rob studied Mathematics at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, earned an MBA from Kelley, and has broad interdisciplinary exposure (UCL English History/Theater) that informs a pragmatic, storytelling-driven tech leadership. An active builder and strategist, he turns complex regulatory and data challenges into actionable, auditable systems, blending hands-on engineering with product vision.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (37)
cloud-service9
amplify9
barrage9
storage9
aws-amplify9
aws9
aws-s39
cloud-services9
react9
aws-mobile9
mobile-analytics8
amazon-cognito8
pouchdb8
sst8
aws-apigateway8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
robwhelan/datalake
Jun 2019 - Feb 2020
A three-zone datalake on AWS.
Contributions:74 commits, 1 PR, 55 pushes in 8 months
datalakezoneaws
robwhelan/score
Apr 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:6 PRs, 76 pushes, 4 branches in 3 months
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