Bob Familiar
Founder at Sounds Familiar Studios
Sudbury, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolBob Familiar is a technology leader and founder with 12 years of senior leadership experience and a multi-decade engineering background spanning software, cloud, and developer advocacy. He led Microsoft’s Boston Technology Center and developer evangelism teams, guided national practice strategy at BlueMetal, and now runs Sounds Familiar Studios where he records, mixes, and masters electronic and contemporary orchestral music. Comfortable shifting between hands-on technical work and client-facing strategy, he specializes in translating business challenges into cloud-enabled proofs of concept, workshops, and high-velocity product engineering. Trained both in computer science (Wentworth, Northeastern) and composition (Berklee), he blends rigorous technical architecture skills with a practiced creative sensibility that informs his studio work and customer engagements. An understated but consistent thread is his talent for mentoring and building developer readiness programs that scale technical capability across organizations.
12 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Associates Degree Composition Music Composition, Associates Degree Composition Music Composition at Berklee College of MusicMasters Comp Sci Computer Science, Masters Comp Sci Computer Science at Northeastern UniversityBachelors Comp Sci Computer Science, Bachelors Comp Sci Computer Science at Wentworth Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (13)
windows6
tabcontrol6
windows-runtime6
monogame6
dialog6
user-input6
xamarin1
csharp1
api1
dotnet1
xaml1
chuck1
dotnet-core1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bobfamiliar/d2c2d
Feb 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:44 commits, 46 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
bobfamiliar/microservices-iot-azure
Oct 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:56 commits, 67 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
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