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Robert Neelbauer

Software engineer and management consultant. I build products and partner with software companies to sharpen their strategy, grow their teams, and scale their technology.

I build software products and help software companies execute.

Hands-on dev + management consulting for teams that need results.

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Developer Lane

Architect & Build Mobile, Web & Desktop Apps

End-to-end ownership

  • UX + architecture
  • Fast iteration
  • Maintainable systems
  • AI Augment Engineering Training
  • Test Automation
  • Applicaiton Security & Compliance
  • Certified Scrum Master
  • Certified Web Application Architect
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Consulting Lane

Align product + engineering

Turn strategy into shipping

  • Delivery rescue
  • Business Strategy & Customer Acquisition
  • People Operations
  • AI Enablement
  • Team Building & Optimization
  • Training
  • Operations & General Management
  • College Recruiting
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01 — Engineering

Software Engineering & AI Augmentation Engineering

AI Integrations

Mac OS + iOS Music & Book Sharing

Recruiting Focused Applicant Tracking SaaS

Recruiting Focused Applicant Tracking SaaS

Web Search Platform

Natural Language Parser Backend

Taxonomy Manager

Car Buying App & Inventory Crawler

Web Based Arcade & Games

Desktop Mac OS Game

Job Board & Resume Database

Email Spam Handling

Email Marketing & Email List Management System

Government Constituent Relationship Management System

Political Candidate Fundraising Software

Business Brochure Websites

Business Career, Sales, and Marketign Landing Pages

Enterprise Accounting & Reporting Systems

02 — Consulting

Management Consulting Roles

Selected organizations across software, higher education, and services, with exits where publicly documented.

Curb

Alexandria, VA

People Operations, M&A Consultant

Acquired by Verifone. more

Ad Hoc, LLC

Distributed Team

People Operations

Prime for Healthcare.gov and Vets.gov. more

Webs.com

Silver Spring, MD

People Operations & Strategy

Acquired by Vistaprint for $117.5M. more

Social Gaming Network

San Francisco, CA

People Operations & Strategy

Acquired by MindJolt. more

HelloWallet

Washington, DC

People Operations

Acquired by Morningstar for $52.5M. more

Opower

Arlington, VA

People Operations

Acquired by Oracle for around $532M. more

Fugue

Frederick, MD

People Operations

Acquired by Snyk. more

Lotame

Elkridge, MD

People Operations

Acquired by Publicis Groupe. more

Message Systems, Inc.

Columbia, MD

People Operations

Acquired by MessageBird for $600M. more

Wireless Matrix

Herndon, VA

People Operations

Acquired by CalAmp for $53M cash. more

Razoo

Washington, DC

People Operations & Strategy

Management buyout announced. more

more vang.

Alexandria, VA

People Operations

Formerly Global Printing & Global Thinking.

CustomInk.com

McLean, VA

People Operations

Technical Recruiting Client

GeoIQ

Arlington, VA

People Operations

Acquired by Esri. more

Intridea

Washington, DC

Customer Acquisition & Strategy

Acquired. more

University of Maryland

College Park, MD

Software Vendor

Provider of career fair and advising software.

Life Sciences Institute

Baltimore, MD

UMD BioPark

Department of Labor grant software partner.

Reliability Center, Inc.

Richmond, VA

People Operations

Technical Recruiting Client.

03 — Stack

Tech Stack

Frontend

React, Solid.js, Vite, TypeScript, JavaScript, Swift

Backend

Ruby on Rails, Django, Django Ninja, FastAPI, Rust, Node.js, Bun, Celery, Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Supabase, Debian, Ubuntu Server

Testing

Playwright, Cypress, Vitest, RSpec, Pytest

Games

Bevy, HTML5 Canvas

AI

Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cline, Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, Context Engineering

NLP

spaCy, Extraction & Resolution, Taxonomy Management

Platforms

Mac OS, iOS

04 — Credentials

Certifications

People Analytics

University of Pennsylvania Wharton School

2025

Certified SAFe 6 Scrum Master

Scaled Agile, Inc. Credential: 71868936-7768

2024

Project Management Professional Course

Project Management Institute

2023

Web Application Architecture Certificate

University of New Mexico (Coursera)

2015

Project Management

Project Experts

05 — Contact

Let's Work Together

Reach out for product development or team building (including recruiting) help, or strategic advisory services, or training in AI Engineering, Recruiting, etc.