Buckley Robinson

Staff-level full-stack engineer and engineering leader with 20+ years building pragmatic systems in commerce/payments, analytics, and developer tooling.

• Recently: independent consulting (OAuth2 refactors, applied LLM/RAG prototypes)
• Previously: Staff Engineer (Invative/Blissy), Director/EM (BrightBytes), Senior Engineer (VerticalResponse)
• I care about: clear architecture, fast feedback loops, and UX that makes the right thing easy

What I build

• Multi-tenant commerce and payment routing (rules engines, state machines)
• High-throughput tracking/analytics pipelines and ingestion services
• Internal tooling and dashboards for operations/support teams
• Frontend systems and design systems (I started in interface design)

A few outcomes

• 100K+ monthly transactions at <200ms API latency (commerce platform)
• Reduced fraud ~25% via intelligent payment routing
• Cut AWS spend 86% ($50K -> $7K/month) through architecture and operations changes
• Scaled tracking throughput 1000x; delivered 99.9% uptime ingestion services; improved ML/ETL throughput 30x

Public projects

• trello-list-filter - Chrome extension to filter lists on Trello
• pr-sanity - improves pull request readability
• coding-prompts-tui - terminal UI for building project prompts
• sql-cms - workflow CMS for SQL data import/export/transform

Reach me

• Website: https://buckleyrobinson.com
• LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/evilbuck
• Email: buck@hey.com