Bob Mcneel
CEO at Robert McNeel and Associates
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorBob Mcneel is a seasoned CEO and technologist with over 10 years of software experience and a career spanning leadership of Robert McNeel and Associates since 1978. He blends marketing and finance expertise with hands-on back-end development, contributing maintenance and integration work to the widely used opennurbs library that enables reading and writing the 3DM file format outside Rhino. Based in Seattle, he pairs executive oversight with practical code stewardship—synchronizing upstream changes, refining string handling and locale behavior, and preserving core functionality like zlib integration. His background ranges from early hands-on work on a family dairy farm to finance roles as a CPA, giving him practical grit and fiscal discipline. Known for building and testing pull requests for his organization, he stays directly involved in the developer workflow while guiding product and business strategy. This combination of operational leadership and low-level code maintenance makes him an uncommon CEO who still understands and influences the technical underpinnings of his products.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
maintenance10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
locale9
string-format9
localized9
locals9
string-formatting9
localize9
zlib8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mcneel/opennurbs
Jan 2018 - Dec 2022
OpenNURBS libraries allow anyone to read and write the 3DM file format without the need for Rhino.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 62 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Bob's commits primarily involve synchronizing changes from an upstream repository, indicating a role focused on maintaining and integrating external code updates. The changes include modifications to header files and source code files related to string formatting, locale handling, and various internal functions. These modifications suggest the user is maintaining and possibly improving the core functionality of the opennurbs library, including the functionality of zlib, and string scan function.
3dm3d-modelsfile-formatopennurbsopenscad
mcneel/rhino-cpp-api-docs
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:32 commits, 79 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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