Robbie McKinstry

About Robbie McKinstry

I\'m the founder and CEO of Wack, Incorporated, the makers of MultiTool. MultiTool is a deployment tool for progressive delivery that helps teams catch production bugs before they impact users.Previously, I was a senior software engineer at Pulumi on the OSS core team. Before that, I was an early employee and research scientist at HashiCorp in the office of the CTO. My career has focused on advancing the state of the art in developer tools, turning academic ideas into practical software. In college, I worked at Carnegie Mellon University on new programming languages.In my free time, I play D&D and pickleball, and love to watch Dropout.tv.

Experience

1. Chief Executive Officer

   Wack

   Jan 2024 — Present · Pittsburgh, PA, US

   At Wack, we\'re building MultiTool, a next-generation deployment tool for progressive delivery. MultiTool helps engineers move fast without breaking things by monitoring your releases for service disruptions and intelligently rolling back when it detects regressions.

Education

• University of Pittsburgh

  Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science

  2012 — 2017

Skills

• Systems Software
• Chef
• Subversion
• Distributed Systems
• Computer Science
• Test Driven Development
• Software Engineering
• Java
• Ruby
• Rails
• Bash
• Vim
• C
• Programming
• Servlets
• Rest
• Ubuntu
• Git
• Golang
• Javaservlets
• Programming Language Theory
• Html
• Ruby on Rails
• Algorithms
• Software Development
• Python
• Devopts
• Open Source
• Os X
• Chess
• Object Oriented Design
• Boy Scouts
• Json
• Operating Systems
• Postgresql
• Javascript
• Linux