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    Software that makes lives better and businesses stronger.

    I'm Robert — a full-stack engineer and systems owner. I architect and ship production platforms end to end: React interfaces, FastAPI & Node services, multi-cloud infrastructure, and the AI pipelines that tie them together.

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    Robert HoganTrusted by teams at
    Sophos, North Avenue & more
    32K+
    Monthly active users across launched platforms
    15+
    Production products shipped end-to-end
    AI-native
    LLM pipelines & automation, built to ship
    Full-stack
    Design to deploy — one accountable owner
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    Experience across
    Worldview StudiosSophosNorth AvenueSubstrate SystemsTheona AIMorgan StanleyAcara SolutionsWorldview StudiosSophosNorth AvenueSubstrate SystemsTheona AIMorgan StanleyAcara Solutions
    01 — Skills

    I help teams build scalable systems and ship software that drives results.

    01

    Full-Stack Systems

    Complete systems from interface to infrastructure — React frontends, REST & GraphQL APIs, and cloud services that work together seamlessly.

    REACTNEXT.JSFASTAPINODE.JS
    02

    Cloud Infrastructure

    Scalable, maintainable systems that handle real-world complexity — from data models to containerized deployment pipelines.

    AWSGCPDOCKERNGINX
    03

    Solution Architecture

    I translate business requirements into technical architecture — choosing the right patterns and trade-offs, then owning the build through deployment.

    SYSTEM DESIGNAI PIPELINESSCALE
    02 — Selected Work

    Platforms I designed and shipped.

    Solo-built and team-owned products serving real users in production.
    01ProPic Studio● Live

    Studio-Quality Headshots, No Studio

    Designed and built a consumer AI photo studio that turns a handful of selfies into 100+ studio-quality professional headshots in minutes — no photographer, no booking. Owned the product end to end: the guided upload-to-download experience, credit-based billing, and the behind-the-scenes pipeline that renders polished, true-to-you results at 4K.

    100+
    Headshots per session
    4K
    Studio-quality output
    NEXT.JSFASTAPICELERYMONGODBSTRIPEAWS S3
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    Studio-Quality Headshots, No Studio
    02PingInsight● Live

    Uptime Monitoring, Down to the Second

    Built a status-page and uptime-monitoring platform for teams that can't afford to find out late. It watches sites and APIs with true second-by-second checks, pinpoints the exact second an outage begins, and keeps customers informed through fast, branded status pages — engineered end to end as a multi-tenant product, from the monitoring engine to the dashboard and billing.

    1-second
    Monitoring resolution
    Multi-tenant
    Status-page platform
    NEXT.JSFASTAPIMONGODBCELERYREDIS
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    Uptime Monitoring, Down to the Second
    03The AI Wiki● Live

    AI Knowledge Platform at Scale

    Solo-designed and built an AI knowledge platform on 6,000+ statically-generated pages. Engineered a multi-agent content pipeline coordinating 20+ specialized agents with self-healing state, checkpoint recovery, and a containerized FastAPI + MongoDB API.

    26,000+
    Monthly users
    20+
    Coordinated agents
    NODE.JSFASTAPIMONGODBDOCKERPAGEFINDSEO
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    AI Knowledge Platform at Scale
    04Open Travel Guide● Live

    Travel Content Platform & Digital Storefront

    A travel content platform paired with a full-stack storefront. Built an autonomous multi-agent pipeline producing ~40 pages an hour, plus Stripe checkout, webhook fulfillment, HTML-to-PDF generation, and S3 presigned delivery.

    5,000+
    Monthly users
    ~40/hr
    Pages generated
    NEXT.JSFASTAPIMONGODBSTRIPEAWS S3JINJA2
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    Travel Content Platform & Digital Storefront
    05Theona AI

    Enterprise AI Content Platform

    Owned full-stack architecture for a multi-tenant platform letting agencies generate, publish, and A/B test AI content at scale. Designed the provider abstraction unifying 8 AI services into one normalized pipeline with async job orchestration.

    8
    AI services unified
    10+
    Publish targets
    AWSFASTAPINEXT.JSCELERYREDIS
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    Enterprise AI Content Platform
    06Substrate● Live

    Cloud Infrastructure Control Plane

    Owned front-end architecture for a multi-cloud platform with sub-10-second VM provisioning across AWS and GCP. Built browser-based remote desktop via Apache Guacamole and real-time event streaming over WebSocket tunnels with STOMP.

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    VM provisioning
    AWS+GCP
    Multi-cloud
    AWSGUACAMOLESTOMPREACTTYPESCRIPT
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    Cloud Infrastructure Control Plane
    03 — Experience

    A hands-on engineer and system owner.

    Worldview Studios
    Senior Software Engineer
    Full-stack systems & AI integration
    Sophos
    Software Engineer
    Data pipelines & analytics infrastructure
    North Avenue Technologies
    Software Engineer
    Statewide court system platform frontend
    Atlas Stone Holdings
    Software Developer
    ETL pipelines & data systems
    Morgan Stanley
    Investment Analyst Intern
    Investment analysis & research
    Domains

    Built across diverse industries & technical domains.

    01
    Enterprise SaaS & AI platforms
    Full-stack systems for startups and established companies
    02
    Data pipelines & analytics
    Infrastructure for enterprise security platforms
    03
    Government & public sector
    Statewide court management systems
    04
    E-commerce & payments
    End-to-end payment integration
    05
    AI content & automation
    Generation and workflow automation systems
    06
    Internal tools & dashboards
    Operations and analytics interfaces
    04 — Let's talk

    Let's build something that lasts.

    I partner closely with product and stakeholders to architect reliable, maintainable systems that deliver real business value. Open to senior engineering and architecture engagements.

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