Robert (Robby) Connor Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

-WasLive Reliability: WasLive is a VOD of a live stream (FB Live, IG Live, etc.) after it's completed so creators can share content after the broadcast ends. I designed and implemented the ability to run duplicate video encoding requests against a release candidate binary in our continuous deployment system. Also set up monitors and alerts to ensure the RC binary wasn't introducing a metric regression compared to production.-Live Video Clipping: short videos (clips) can be created from live streams as they are broadcasting. I migrated this feature from a deprecated video encoding pipeline to a new one, taking advantage of an asynchronous queuing service and a lambda service. Set up robust metrics, alerts, and dashboards and ran double production and user experiments to ensure latency and reliability metrics were neutral or better compared to the previous system.-Widespread Metadata Solution: a software bug caused thousands of WasLive videos to have a critical metadata error which prevented some users from playing sound with those videos. I created a service which combed through >5TB of data to determine which encoding entities had the invalid data, and quickly delivered the correction to the impacted users.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Achievements:-Led team of three in Subscription and License Management project (back end). Designed the API including data contracts, external-facing documentation, and SLAs. Reduced latency by over 200% (compared to exclusively making external network requests) by caching infrequently changing data. This made our NorthStar goal of making one external network request (at most) per incoming request feasible, which keeps latency as low as possible.-Developed Private Offer Plans project end to end. These are subscription prices which sellers offer to a specific customer at a discount and make up ~15% of the total SaaS offers in the Teams App Store. This project included updating our existing “Offers” API, adding distributed caching to the back end to decrease latency, and updating the front end to display private offers to the user (using TypeScript, HTML, and CSS).-Migrated our service to the newest MS authentication scheme in order to be compliant with Microsoft’s Zero Trust strategy. This made our service more resilient to large scale outages, while also utilizing all the latest security improvements that Microsoft has to offer.Responsibilities:Began as team member #4 of 9 with Teams App Monetization while the product (service + single page application) was still in initial development. Integral in scaling the back end using microservice design principles and concepts from Domain Driven Design. Brought software to production: initially launching the Teams SaaS App purchase flow through the Microsoft Teams App Store with subscription and license management capabilities within Teams as a fast follow. Led multiple projects by researching, designing, developing, documenting, and creating the test infrastructure for the software, as well as creating dashboards and monitors after deployment.

0180Oslo, No

Achievements:-Grew production software suite from concept to current version, which services over 20 products, 10 custom protocols, and 35 unique procedures, yielding over 7M modules.-Lead the US development team in 40+ projects in C#, C, JavaScript, SQL, and Kotlin.-Designed and implemented customer quality tools, which were accepted and used in production line by Tier 1 companies.-Authored fingerprint processing algorithm which led to products receiving PIV Certification from the FBI.-Member of core team under the COO which makes critical decisions on product development and new product roll out.Responsibilities:-Manager of software engineer team, assigning and reviewing work, etc.-Architect and develop C# libraries to communicate over various drivers to all NEXT finger print sensors. Work closely with firmware team to build custom protocols.-Create production and engineering applications in C# (using WPF and XAML) to interface with the C# libraries developed to communicate with the finger print sensors. They followed the MVVM design pattern, using dependency injection and inheritance to implement the separation of concerns principle.-Coordinate with recruiters and HR for recruitment and hiring.

0180Oslo, No

-Write C# libraries to communicate over USB (via HID, WinUsb and an in-house Windows Biometric Framework driver) to numerous NEXT finger print sensors. These sensors followed different protocols, but all needed to work with the same universal PC applications.-Write various universal PC applications in C# (using WPF and XAML) to interface with the C# libraries developed to communicate with the finger print sensor. The applications were used in production (calibration and qualification applications) and by consumers (demo applications). They followed the MVVM design pattern, using dependency injection and inheritance to implement the separation of concerns principle.-Manager of Junior Software Engineer, assigning and reviewing work, bi-weekly one-on-one meetings, and approving PTO and salary changes.-Developed Android applications with the SDK and the NDK in Java and C.-Interfaced hardware with Intrinsyc Android development board by adding Kernel code and creating a User Library.

-Programmed a Xilinx FPGA with Verilog on a Nexys2 development board to monitor and control systems on an ultrasound medical device.-Interfaced and debugged FPGAs, PCBs, motor controllers, and custom cables in a product prototype.-Designed an analog circuit with op-amps, regulators, LC filters, and 1500V isolation, and laid it out on a 4-layer printed circuit board in Sunstone’s PCB123. -Wrote LabVIEW software for power tests, calibration, and impedance analysis for a product in development.-Documented design specifications, test reports, and work instructions in accordance with FDA guidelines.

Newark, Delaware, Us

-Created a particle counting procedure using an FFT with the free Java-based program ImageJ from the National Institute of Health (NIH).-Designed an algorithm to monitor the position of a catheter relative to a blood clot using red laser feedback reflected from the catheter tip.-Wrote LabVIEW software and National Instruments DAQs to capture and analyze laser feedback, water pressure, and temperature signals in a system.-Documented test reports and test procedures in accordance with FDA guidelines.

Seattle, Wa, Us

-Wrote C code on a PIC18.-Interfaced the PIC with prototype hardware to measure the salinity of surrounding water.-Used interrupts to put the PIC to sleep in order to save battery life. Product specifications required system to take measurements in water every 15 minutes for multiple weeks at a time.-Derived and implemented equations in code to convert electrical current from a wire coil to salinity in the PIC.

San Jose, Ca, Us

-Measured voltages and currents of routers in the design stage in order to test that they were performing as intended.-Debugged routers in the design stage with the use of oscilloscopes and logic analyzers.-Tested the power of edge case integrated circuits on routers in the design stage in an environmentally controlled chamber