Rob Hird Email & Phone Number

Rob Hird is a Software Engineer at Vivint Smart Home. He possess expertise in leadership, robot dance expert, javaserver pages, splunk, data science and 15 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Rob has an innovator's spirit, winning pretty much every hackathon he entered while working with my Core Apps engineering team as a back-end platform engineer. During the time we worked together (Vivint, 2020-2021, a direct report), he delivered several impactful projects, from DIY product offerings to tactical improvements to the security alarm features within the mobile apps. Rob tests his work thoroughly, including on one occasion an end-to-end test that ended up involving his local fire department. What has impressed me most about working with Rob has been his growth mindset and his innate leadership capabilities. Rob is always looking for ways to grow as an engineer and investing in learning new skills. He looks for immediate opportunities to apply what he learns in his day-to-day work. Rob is also a real team player and thrives in a collaborative environment. He cares about building better relationships amongst mobile and platform teams, which led him to take the initiative to improve the mobile developer experience by building out better PaaS capabilities. Rob is an empathetic teammate; his positive energy improved team dynamics both remote and in-person. Rob volunteered to help with hiring and onboarding of new hires, he regularly planned and ran sprint ceremonies for our platform engineering pod, and he organized team-building exercises with ease. I hope to work with Rob again in the future and recommend him as an asset to any platform team. I also believe that he will make a great engineering manager someday, if he is so inclined." and "Jibo hired Robert as an intern within our Software Quality Assurance Team. We were about to release a new major change to our social robot which includes cloud services. Robert and I were the first to test the release for about one month prior to putting it into our normal QA release test cycle. Every day, I was very impressed with Robert's maturity in his technical ability, how he reacted to problems, and how he handled himself in a corporate startup environment. Our manager and I commented to each other, "Robert behaves like he's been doing this for years." Often, he would provide testing details that required no more information or followup by me. He would inform the right parties of issues, in addition, to being helpful and taking initiative. He has great persistence and desire to do the job well We relied on him for manual testing, and writing scripts for our mobile and robot automation. An all-around fantastic hire!"

Listed skills include Leadership, Robot Dance Expert, Javaserver Pages, Splunk, and 16 others.

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  Wentworth Institute Of Technology

  Computer Science