Rod Begbie
Director Of Engineering at Splice
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRod Begbie is a seasoned engineering leader with 25+ years of experience building product-focused teams and shipping scalable software. He is currently Director of Engineering at Splice, with a proven track record across roles at Discord, Dropbox, Volley, and Sosh, where he scaled organizations, established clear strategic priorities, and improved delivery velocity. He has driven initiatives in lightweight planning, technical excellence, observability, and cross-functional collaboration to align engineering work with business outcomes. An active writer and speaker, his work has appeared in the O’Reilly book Things Every Programmer Should Know and he’s been a featured contributor and panel host at LeadDev events. Based in San Francisco and a Heriot-Watt University alum, he also coaches engineering leaders and co-founded Sosh, blending hands-on engineering depth with leadership development.
19 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh Campus
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Github Skills (54)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rodbegbie/twadget
Nov 2006 - Sep 2007
Contributions:29 commits in 9 months
rodbegbie/begbie.com
Dec 2008 - Aug 2011
Contributions:35 commits in 2 years 7 months
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