Bob Gardner
Senior Computer Scientist at Adobe
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBob Gardner is a Senior Computer Scientist with 12 years of software engineering experience building distributed and developer-facing systems at Microsoft and Adobe. Trained in a joint Economics and Computer Science program at NYU, he blends econometric thinking with systems research and has a track record of turning research prototypes into practical tools for non-programmer scientists. His open-source contributions include adding the cargo rm subcommand to the widely used cargo-edit utility, demonstrating attention to CLI ergonomics and robust integration testing. At Adobe he now applies this mix of research-minded rigor and product-focused engineering to scale scientific and data-processing workflows. Colleagues know him for bridging academic research, startup analytics, and enterprise software to commercialize practical, user-friendly solutions.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Joint Major in Economics and Computer Science with Honors minor in Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree Joint Major in Economics and Computer Science with Honors minor in Mathematics at New York UniversityHigh School, High School at The Overlake School
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (8)
dependency-management10
command-line-interface10
rust10
cargo10
command-line10
cli10
toml9
testing8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
killercup/cargo-edit
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
A utility for managing cargo dependencies from the command line.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 3 PRs, 8 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Bob primarily contributed to the `cargo-edit` project by implementing the `cargo rm` subcommand, enabling users to remove dependencies from the Cargo.toml manifest file. This involved adding new functionalities like the `remove_from_table` method and integrating it into the command-line interface. The user also addressed merging and testing requirements for functionality within the codebase, ensuring the successful integration of new features.
cratedependenciesrustcargocommand-line
rgardner/bsh-rs
Sep 2018 - Nov 2021
Bash-like shell (builtins, job control, piping) written in Rust
Contributions:32 PRs, 59 pushes, 37 branches in 3 years 2 months
pipingrustlinuxunix-shellbash
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