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

ReactTypeScriptRuby on RailsAWSFlutterSwiftKotlinReact NativeNode.jsGraphQLMongoDBFirebaseRedisCI/CDClaude CodeGitHub Copilot

What People Say

“Rob is a superstar. He's a true leader — well organized, well thought out and a great communicator.”

— Steve Miller, Founder/CEO Pragmatic Software (Sold to SmartBear)

“Intelligent, insightful, and most important of all thorough. You can be confident that any task he starts will be a resounding success.”

— Gant Laborde, Chief Technology Strategist of Infinite Red

“Rob is great! I highly recommend working with him if you get the chance!”

— Noah Goodhart, Cofounder of Moat (acquired by Oracle)

“Rob's determination to systematically try different approaches until he found the right path is inspiring, informative, and definitely worth emulating!”

— Charlyn Keating, Founder, Appreneur Summit

“On my short list of people to ping if I ever started a company.”

— Bryan Joseph, Revelry Labs
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