Bellingham, WA

Rob Abby

Senior Frontend Product Engineer

15 years shipping consumer and B2B products in React and TypeScript.

Previously: PartySlate · project44 · SAVO

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Current Work

Independent Software Engineer · Rob Abby LLC · Nov 2025 – Present

  • WavePoint

    Solo-built product live in production: a Next.js 16 web app with subscriptions, plus six native Apple apps sharing a Swift astronomy engine — a 750+ commit monorepo.

    Next.js 16 · TypeScript · Supabase · Stripe · SwiftUI

  • Sherpa

    Collaboration framework for agentic workflows that governs its own development — agent definitions, a skills engine, and a dispatch pipeline that live in your codebase.

    Claude Code · Agentic workflows · TypeScript

  • claude-skills

    Open-source cross-session memory system for Claude Code, built on Obsidian. Eight skills for persistent context, recall, and session handoff.

    Claude Code · MCP · Obsidian · Markdown/YAML

  • ai-ready-vault

    Documentation site for AI-ready Obsidian vaults with downloadable starter templates.

    Next.js App Router · React Server Components · TypeScript · MDX · Vercel

Experience

  • VIMSIA

    Technology Strategist & IT Manager · Mar 2025 – Nov 2025

    Led technology strategy and AI integration for a PK-12 school; reduced support requests 20% through training and systems improvements.

  • PartySlate

    Staff Engineer · Dec 2018 – Feb 2024

    Senior-most frontend engineer through growth from a 12-person startup to a 50+ employee Series-B company. Led the rewrite of Find Venues — the platform's highest-traffic page — driving a 150% increase in venue inquiries, and built the 25-module component library that cut feature rollout cycles 40% across teams.

  • project44

    Senior UX Engineer · Jun 2018 – Dec 2018

    Built map-based logistics interfaces in a React/Redux codebase; established a living style guide and UI component library.

  • SAVO

    Senior UI/UX & Product Developer · Apr 2013 – Jun 2018

    Led the spinout of an autonomous UI/UX team and a living design system informed by 50+ user research sessions; founded the org-wide Front-End Guild.

  • Web2Carz

    Web Developer · Nov 2011 – Mar 2013

    Built consumer-facing galleries, forms, and a standalone mobile web app; introduced git and a formal deployment process.

Designed & built with Next.js · View source