Rob Caraway
Engineering Leader for Full Stack Teams
Engineering manager and mobile leader with 15+ years of experience and 5+ years managing cross-functional teams. I build high-performing engineering teams that ship products users love — from healthcare SaaS to consumer apps with millions of downloads.
Career Highlights
Spring Health
Built mobile team from scratch, driving app from 2.2 to industry-leading 4.9 rating. Later led Covered Lives team to dramatically increase member conversions through rapid experimentation.
2M+ Downloads
Founded GifShare & GifLab, achieving over 2 million downloads. Sold to Daneco LTD in 2016. Featured on Fox Business, IndieHackers, and Yahoo.
Enterprise Clients
Consulted with Oracle (Moat), Macmillan (iClicker), HEB, and Kubota. Achieved 99.8% crash-free rate on 3M+ monthly sessions at HEB.
Community
Top 5% iOS contributor on StackOverflow. Over 100k pageviews on technical articles. Founded “Ship Your Side Projects” meetup in Austin.
How I Can Help
- •Manage, mentor, and grow a team of engineers across mobile, web, and backend
- •Improve app scalability with strong architecture and engineering standards
- •Increase productivity through automation, CI/CD, and experimentation frameworks
- •Engineer apps from scratch — greenfield and skunkworks specialist
Tech Stack
What People Say
“Rob is a superstar. He's a true leader — well organized, well thought out and a great communicator.”
“Intelligent, insightful, and most important of all thorough. You can be confident that any task he starts will be a resounding success.”
“Rob is great! I highly recommend working with him if you get the chance!”
“Rob's determination to systematically try different approaches until he found the right path is inspiring, informative, and definitely worth emulating!”
“On my short list of people to ping if I ever started a company.”