# Robb Doering's CV - Phone: +1 415 713 1766 - Email: [robb@doering.ai](mailto:robb@doering.ai) - Website: [doering.ai](https://doering.ai/) - LinkedIn: [robbd](https://linkedin.com/in/robbd) - GitLab: [robbd](https://gitlab.com/robbd) - GitHub: [robbwdoering](https://github.com/robbwdoering) # Summary Senior full stack engineer (TypeScript, React, Python) with 6+ years of professional experience, from Google AdSense to satellite command-and-control software. Three years of independent AI work became full-time agentic engineering: directing coding agents in isolated Git worktrees and building the MCP servers, code review, guardrails, and recovery tooling around them. I relish any opportunity to apply science or philosophy to engineering challenges. # Skills **Languages:** Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, C++, Java, SQL, Bash **Frontend:** React, Redux, Next.js, Astro, HTML/CSS, Tailwind CSS, Bun **Backend and data:** REST APIs, WebSockets, Node.js, Flask, PostgreSQL, embeddings, RAG **Agentic engineering:** Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, MCP servers, skills, hooks, Git worktrees **Models:** LiteLLM, vLLM, llama.cpp, Hugging Face Transformers, QLoRA fine-tuning, Marker OCR **Testing and operations:** pytest, Jest, A/B testing, GitLab CI/CD, Linux, Docker/Podman, systemd services # Experience ## **Doering Thinking Machines** · *Software Engineer (self-employed)* Aug 2023 – Sept 2026 AI prototyping and agent tooling in Python and TypeScript, published as ~30 open-source repositories. - **Agent orchestration.** Directed coding agents (Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI) through scoped tasks in isolated Git worktrees, with automated code review as the gate to main: nearly 2,400 agent branches merged across 45 repositories in Q3 2026. - **MCP integrations.** Built four FastMCP servers that replace fragile shell calls with structured tools: [inTact](https://gitlab.com/doering-ai/libs/tact) (on PyPI) heals stale agent edits through seven increasingly permissive matches and refuses ambiguous ones; the others handle Git with commit-time secret scanning, Plane task tracking, and task routing. - **Code review and guardrails.** Built [myGate](https://gitlab.com/doering-ai/apps/gate), which reviews each GitLab merge request from an immutable Git snapshot, posts findings as discussions, and holds the merge until major findings are resolved: 1,500+ merges reviewed from mid-August through September 2026. Its hooks block costly nested agent launches. - **Recovery.** Built tooling to resume interrupted agent runs: session analytics classify how each run ended (frozen on a tool call, aborted), and a resumer agent rebuilds the work from transcripts, task records, and repository state, then finishes only what remains. - **Engineering standards.** Codified the workflow as 29 policy documents with citable rule IDs and 46 agent skills, which [myFleet](https://gitlab.com/doering-ai/libs/fleet) projects from one canonical copy into eleven agent harnesses. Held the libraries to GitLab CI, deep type coverage, and Sphinx documentation, with ~9,900 pytest cases across four of them. - **Models and retrieval.** Ran a self-hosted LiteLLM gateway with sealed credentials; built embedding search on PostgreSQL; served models with vLLM and llama.cpp; fine-tuned with QLoRA on an RTX 4090. ## **Google** · *Software Engineer, AdSense* Feb 2022 – June 2023 Modernized the JavaScript ad tag of AdSense, a multi-billion-dollar-a-year product, and implemented new ad formats across browser (TypeScript) and backend (C++) code. - Owned features from start to finish at Google scale, meeting strict performance requirements and shipping through Google's production deployment systems. - Set up, monitored, and analyzed A/B experiments on billions of ad queries to verify the impact of my changes, using Python notebooks and internal tools. - Investigated and documented JavaScript behavior for scripts that run in over 2M browser environments. ## **Space Ground System Solutions** · *Software Engineer* June 2019 – July 2021 Helped bring a command-and-control system for government satellites to the web, building features in React/Redux, Java, and C++ on data-intensive APIs from NASA, DoD, and commercial partners. - Delivered ~12 full stack features end to end, some from design documents and others where I led requirements gathering and UX design. - Chosen as acting project lead for six engineers during the lead's three-month leave; ran Agile ceremonies, met with stakeholders, and cleared blockers. - Introduced Jest unit tests to a lightly tested codebase and helped coordinate regular functional testing. ## **Fujitsu Network Communications** · *Automation Tools Intern* May 2018 – Aug 2018 Built a Java/Spring MVC and JavaScript web application that formalized a project-management procedure and collected its data for executive analysis. # Projects ## **[The Epstein Index](https://epstein-index.org)** · *Public Document Explorer* Astro · React · OCR - A public explorer for over 45,000 DOJ case-file documents, fed by an eight-stage Python pipeline (download, OCR, clean), with an interactive React timeline, maps, and a network graph. ## **[Wikiparse](https://gitlab.com/doering-ai/apps/wiki-parse)** · *Wikitext Translation Pipeline* Python data pipeline - Extracted 45M citations from a full English Wikipedia dump on home hardware and published a [Hugging Face dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/robbd/wikiparse-2606) of 5.1M articles; converts wikitext to Markdown with composed regular expressions. ## **[doering.ai](https://doering.ai)** · *Professional Portfolio Site* Astro · TypeScript - An Astro and TypeScript site on Bun and Tailwind CSS, with accessibility and reproducibility checks. ## **[myBasis](https://gitlab.com/doering-ai/libs/basis)** · *Ergonomic Python Utilities* Python library - A broad extension of the Python standard library, published on PyPI as [my-basis](https://pypi.org/project/my-basis/), centered on runtime type coercion, text processing, and functional programming. ## **[Sublime Text tooling](https://gitlab.com/doering-ai-sublime)** · *Plugins, Language Servers, and Test Infrastructure* Python · Rust · LSP - A mock editor API for headless pytest, a Rust-backed language server for `.sublime-syntax` grammars, and LSP-pyrefly for Meta's pyrefly type checker. # Education ## **Vanderbilt University** · *Computer Science* **B.S.** Nashville, TN Aug 2015 – May 2019 Minors in Philosophy and Spanish. ## **Georgia Institute of Technology** · *Computer Science, Interactive Intelligence* Online Sept 2020 – June 2022 Completed 8 of 10 courses toward an M.S.; degree not completed. - Coursework included AI, Knowledge-Based AI, Human-Computer Interaction, Networks, Operating Systems, and Visual Analytics.