Robert Weeden

Staff Software Engineer · Full-Stack & AI

Madison, Wisconsin hello@robertjw.dev github.com/weedenrj

Staff Software Engineer at Vally, one of three engineers working across six applications. Software experience since July 2021 and hands-on F-16 inspection experience. Interested in space technology and software for designing, testing, and operating physical systems. Drawn to small, autonomous teams within companies of any size. Open to asynchronous contracts and full-time roles with meaningful equity or stock-based compensation, locally or remotely. Relocation considered for an exceptional fit.

Experience

Vally

Aug 2024 - Present · Full-time

Staff Software Engineer

  • Joined as the second engineer. During my tenure, Vally grew to process tens of millions of dollars in payments, with over 500 independent businesses running daily operations and processing payments through the platform.
  • Work across all six applications on a three-engineer team, spanning the business portal, customer booking, backend systems, integrations, and support tools. Carry changes through applications and shared packages.
  • Built authenticated public REST APIs and business partnerships for customer referrals and attribution.
  • Sole developer and maintainer of Vally's agentic product, which is in active development and not currently customer-facing.
  • Lead coding-agent tooling: skills, workflows, plugins, instructions, linting, TypeScript types, tests, and codebase cleanup.

Tesseract Corporation

Jun 2022 - Jun 2024

Senior Full-stack Engineer

  • Built web applications for Vally Pro and Eternity RPG, with responsibility for client-side stability, performance, design, and features.
  • Implemented Next.js pages, browser caching and storage, and progressive web app capabilities. Turned business requirements and user feedback into application improvements.

Sage Labs

Jul 2021 - Jun 2022

Junior React Engineer & Co-founder

  • Built web applications and smart contract integrations on Ethereum and Stacks. Planned, developed, tested, and delivered contracted web projects.

Wisconsin Air National Guard

2015 - Oct 2021

Staff Sergeant · F-16 phase inspections · Truax Field, Madison

  • Performed scheduled F-16 phase inspections as part of a 15-20-person team. Disassembled aircraft components, inspected and measured parts against specifications, and cleaned and reassembled them. Advanced to Staff Sergeant during one enlistment.

Selected work

Built small-business websites for The Red Shed and Brodhead Aviation, and helped build Eternity RPG with React, Redux, and Phaser.

Technical experience

Automation
Agentic applications, coding-agent workflows, plugins
Web development
TypeScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Redux, Phaser
Integrations
REST APIs, OAuth, Stripe API, progressive web apps, browser caching
Developer tooling
Biome, linting, TypeScript types, tests, codebase migrations

Education

University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

May 2022

B.S. Computer Science