June
Robert Mullen has worked in the technology field for over 20 years. In 1998, they began their career at E*TRADE Financial as a Principal, IT Architecture. In this role, they evaluated early-stage enterprise projects to identify potential technical and business issues, embedded within application development teams to more effectively address project specific technical challenges, and created an Erlang-based, Tuxedo compatible framework for deploying legacy application services, eliminating mushrooming licensing costs exceeding $10MM annually.
In 2012, Robert moved to Machine Zone as a Sr Platform Engineer, where they implemented platform services used in MachineZone's top grossing MMO games and created a new PHP/Erlang component communication infrastructure to increase reliability of real-time traffic between web services and Erlang backend systems.
In 2017, Robert became an Independent Contractor at Samvia, where they developed Erlang applications for a pre-launch mobile telecom startup, conducted load testing with Tsung, and performed performance tuning and added proper logging and metrics emission.
Most recently, Robert worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Outpost, where they improved scalability of streaming interaction services and built a distributed actor system in Clojure using the tech stack of Clojure, Redis, AWS (DynamoDB, SQS), and Docker/Kubernetes. In 2019, June (which was acquired by Weber, Inc.) hired Robert as a Software Engineer.
Robert Mullen received their Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
June
June is a modern appliance company dedicated to bringing intelligence and ease to the tools used in the kitchen. June pioneered the smart oven market in 2016 with the introduction of the world’s first and only smart countertop convection oven.