Rob Black

Hi, I'm Rob 👋

Senior Developer | Technical Mentor | DevEx & AI Strategy

Senior Developer with nearly three decades across web, application, and game development. Currently serving as Switch Studios' go-to technical authority, bridging leadership, development, and QA. My strength lies in enabling others to work smarter—improving workflows, tools, and processes to elevate overall team capability.
Current Role Mar 2022 – Present

Senior Developer

Switch Studios

Promoted after internal restructuring; now acts as the studio's senior technical advisor.

Core Competencies

Developer Experience & Enablement

Tooling Architecture Workflow Automation Developer Productivity

CI/CD & Automation

Pipeline Design Semantic Versioning Build & Deployment Automation

Mentorship & Leadership

Code Review Coaching Knowledge Sharing Technical Guidance

AI & Innovation

AI-Augmented Development Prompt Engineering Copilot Optimization

Technical Strategy & Systems Thinking

Technology Adoption Future-Proof Architecture Dev Process Optimization

Software Engineering

TypeScript C# .NET

Observability & Quality

Static Analysis Performance Profiling Automated Testing

Experience

Switch Studios

Mar 2022 – Present

Senior Developer

  • → Drove AI tool adoption across 90% of the development team, creating integration guides and best practices
  • → Implemented automation, static analysis, and quality gates to improve product quality and developer experience

Switch Studios

Jul 2018 – Mar 2022

Client Developer L2

  • → Conducted code reviews and collaborated closely with QA to ensure high quality and regulatory compliance
  • → Contributed to agile processes (daily stand-ups, retros, demos) and translated stakeholder feedback into actionable requirements

FLOvate Solutions

May 2018 – Jul 2018

Lead Web Developer

Wheatley

Sep 2016 – May 2018

Developer

  • → Focused on robust .NET development and system integrations

Selected Projects

Exciting projects in development

Stay tuned for updates...