Bob Obringer

Experience

Background
Web Product Engineer

Sleeper
Staff Web Engineer
Sona
Senior Engineer / Architect, Head of Engineering
Nifty's
Principal Front End Engineer
Grubhub
Staff Engineer
Jet.com (Walmart Labs)
Senior Engineer / Architect
National Hockey League
Senior Engineer
Morgan Stanley Wealth Management
Senior Engineer
National Hockey League
Senior Engineer / Architect
Globecon
Senior Engineer, System Administrator, Tech Team Lead
JPMorgan Chase
Engineer
Broadview
Senior Developer, Administrator, Team Lead
Bestfoods
Developer, Administrator
Prudential HealthCare
Systems Analyst, Developer, Health Claims Processor

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Sona - Bob Obringer

Sona

Senior Engineer / Architect, Head of Engineering

Responsible for web application architecture and engineering project management
Migrated streaming music app from client rendered pages to the NextJS App Router, using React Server Components and Server Actions
Built Sona Vibe Search, an AI backed music discovery service, allowing users to find new music using natural language in both the web app and a Raycast extension
Built Sona Search, allowing users to search millions of songs, artists, albums, playlists and users and receive results in milliseconds in both the web app and Raycast extension
Built Design System with Tailwind and a mix of RadixUI and React Aria
On the front end, built many of Sona's web3 features, including wallets, smart contract integration, and reserve auctions, and on the back end, handled blockchain indexing.
Created transactional e-mail system to automate the creation and sending of rich React and Tailwind based e-mails from any Sona application
Built custom Redis data caching mechanism to replace the built in NextJS cache
Created image processing library and corresponding image optimization component which handled device optimization, cropping, inline blurred placeholders, thumbnails, etc.

Languages

TypeScript

Frontend

React, Next.js, React Server Components, Raycast Extension, Resend

Backend

Node.js, Cloudflare Workers

Libraries

React Query, Zod, Jotai

AI

Cyanite

Data

MySQL, Postgres, DrizzleORM, Redis, Typesense

Styling / Components

Tailwind, Figma, RadixUI, React Aria, Storybook

DevOps / Infra

TurboRepo, Vercel

web3

Privy, viem, WalletConnect, Ethereum, MetaMask, Reservoir, Ponder

Testing / Quality

Playwright

Observability

Posthog, Betterstack

Media

ffmpeg, Sharp, Next Image, AWS SIH

Security

JWT

Industry

Music

Size

20

Employee From

2023 to 2024