Robert Waltman

Senior Software Engineer

Three decades building enterprise backend systems — and long-running indie projects in mobile travel guides and accessibility-first game design.

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About

I deliver software solutions across complex enterprise environments — point-of-sale platforms, supply chain systems, fintech microservices, and e-commerce integrations. At The Walt Disney Company I work on internal POS systems spanning Android front ends and Kubernetes-hosted Java, Go, and PHP services.

Outside my day job I build and maintain Beer Guide Apps — a family of city pub guides with React Native mobile apps, PHP websites, and Spring Boot backend services — and Studio Darkly, where I design mobile games that put sound, haptics, and screen-reader accessibility first.

Experience

  1. The Walt Disney Company

    Senior Software Engineer · Orlando, FL · May 2024 – Present

    • Backend integrations and automated self-service for Disney's internal point-of-sale system.
    • Real-time reporting and problem determination across Android front end and legacy backend services.
    • Kubernetes-hosted Java, Golang, and PHP services with RabbitMQ messaging.

  2. 3Ci — Chick-fil-A Supply Chain

    Senior Software Engineer · Atlanta, GA (remote) · Sep 2023 – May 2024

    • Designed and built Spring Boot services for Chick-fil-A's replacement supply chain platform.
    • Built Kubernetes Cron jobs for partner SFTP data pulls and distributor invoice forwarding.
    • Implemented error-handling strategy with DataDog alerting and OpsGenie notifications.

  3. Mission Lane

    Principal Software Engineer · Richmond, VA (remote) · Mar 2022 – Jun 2023

    • Architecture and development of Spring Boot microservices for customer acquisition.
    • Revamped offer-delivery services in Kotlin; led multi-product expansion initiative.
    • Built eligibility-rules microservice and updated adverse-action notice generation.

  4. TE2 / Accesso

    Senior Software Engineer · Lake Mary, FL · Jun 2017 – Mar 2022

    • Team lead for Food & Beverage — mobile ordering microservices on Amazon EKS.
    • Delivered kitchen management, book-ahead ordering, and customer self-service configuration.
    • Designed POS integration standards enabling third-party developers.

  5. Sapient-Razorfish

    Senior Software Engineer · Cleveland, OH (remote) · Aug 2010 – Apr 2017

    • Integration Technology Lead for Websphere Commerce projects with SAP, Sterling OMS, and IBM Mainframe.
    • Designed ESB integrations for order, inventory, returns, and catalog processes on AWS.
    • Replaced point-to-point legacy integrations with JBOSS ESB using REST, JAX-WS, JMS, and FTP.
Earlier career
Pedigree Technologies · Senior Engineer (2008–2010)
Wyndham Worldwide · Senior Software Engineer (2003–2008)
Robert Bruce Corporation · Principal Consultant (1998–2003)
QCS · Senior Software Engineer (1995–1998)
MicroAutomation · VP Product Development (1992–1995)
Icarus Corporation · Software Engineer (1990–1991)
IBM Corporation · Senior Associate Programmer (1985–1990)

Projects

Beer Guide Apps

City beer pub guides for travelers — 6 React Native apps, companion PHP websites, and Spring Boot backend services built over many years.

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Studio Darkly

Mobile games designed around sound, haptics, and accessibility — including a custom spatial-audio native module for Expo.

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Skills

Languages

Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, JavaScript, SQL, PHP, HTML/XML

Frameworks & Platforms

Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Hibernate, Android, React Native, Expo, Node.js, REST APIs

Data & Messaging

PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, DB2, MongoDB, Couchbase, Kafka, RabbitMQ

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS (EKS, Lambda, S3, Athena), GCS, Kubernetes, Docker, DataDog

Education

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