Arnold Robbins
Retired at Self-employed
Nof Ayalon, Center District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolArnold Robbins is a seasoned software engineer with 51 years of experience, recently retired and based in Nof Ayalon, Israel. His career spans systems and backend development in C++, Python, and Linux/Unix environments with senior roles at Akamai, SCADAfence, McAfee and Intel, and hands-on work in security, network monitoring, and database protection. He has a background in research and team leadership from Georgia Tech and Ness, and drove API design and cross-group coordination on perceptual computing projects at Intel. A longtime open-source contributor, he fixed long-standing bugs and improved POSIX compliance and test coverage for the influential onetrueawk/awk project, showing a focus on robustness and standards. Arnold combines deep low-level systems expertise with practical customer-facing problem solving and documentation, having worked across Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP/UX. Even in retirement he retains a track record of improving reliability and performance in critical infrastructure software.
51 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MS Information and Computer Science, MS Information and Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBA Information Science, BA Information Science at Yeshiva University
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (6)
text-manipulation10
regular-expression10
awk10
strings10
testing9
performance-optimization8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
onetrueawk/awk
Aug 2018 - Dec 2022
One true awk
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 159 commits, 51 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Arnold primarily focused on improving the functionality and stability of the "awk" program. Their contributions involved fixing multiple long-standing bugs and enhancing the test suite, indicating a focus on code quality and reliability. They also addressed POSIX compliance issues, specifically regarding the handling of numeric strings in the `getline` function. Further contributions included optimization, such as string concatenation.
awk
redox-os/gawk
Jul 2015 - Nov 2018
Contributions:1509 commits in 3 years 4 months
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