Robert Calkins Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, CA, US

Mountain View, California, United States

• Enhancing Remote Desktop Agent and Experience features for Omnissa Horizon, leveraging Typescript and C++ to seamlessly integrate native code for high-performance web interfaces.
• Led the production and testing of a WebRTC SDK extension to enhance Horizon’s compatibility withWebRTC-based web applications.
• Drive strategic customizations in remote features with key partners like Citrix, Amazon, andGoogle to meet requirements for high-priority products such as WebEx, Amazon Connect, and ChromeOS.

Mountain View, California, United States

• Assumed additional responsibilities and expanded my role within the Remote Desktop Agent and Experience organization for the VMware Horizon product.
• Collaborate with team members on architecture, design, coding, security, privacy, quality, and testing for numerous Remote Experience features such as Browser Content Redirection, Geolocation, Microsoft Teams, and.
• Proactively maintain unit test frameworks to keep code coverage above 70%
• Shipped high‑priority Browser Content Redirection for VMware Horizon on Linux, utilizing Chromium Embedded Framework and X11 APIs.
• Streamlined the build process and reduced development time by updating Scons scripts.

Palo Alto, California, United States

• Collaborated with team members in the Remote Experience organization to successfully design and develop Browser Content Redirection for Horizon on ChromeOS.
• Led a meaningful proof-of-concept initiative to optimize browsing for Virtual Desktops on ChromeOS using TypeScript. This initiative laid the foundation for the delivered solution.
• Developed extensive Angular unit tests, achieving an 85% code coverage, and significantly increased the identification of bugs in the production environment.
• Integrated Google Admin Console, empowering end-users to manage functionality and security seamlessly.

College Park, Maryland, United States

• Provided one‑on‑one guidance and support to students, helping them grasp complex topics, troubleshoot coding issues, and develop problem‑solving skills.
• Aided students in learning Java by debugging code, explaining algorithms, and providing code optimization recommendations.

Seattle, Washington, United States

College Park, Maryland, United States

Greater Seattle Area

Instruct K-12 children on basic coding concepts, problem solving skills and engineering; through robotics, Minecraft Modding and web development using Java, JavaScript, HTML, CSS and Arduino.

Greater Seattle Area

Instruct K-8 on basic coding concepts through scratch, robotics and Javascript.