Bob Petersen
Semi Retired at Self-Employed
Los Altos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBob Petersen is a seasoned software manager and engineer with 13 years of hands-on and leadership experience bringing wireless mobile consumer products and embedded systems from early concept to market. He led architecture and large multidisciplinary teams at fast-moving companies like Palm, Handspring, and Facebook, and directed software programs for consumer brands and silicon partners while coordinating OEMs, SoC vendors, and ODMs. Bob has a proven track record shipping breakthrough products—ranging from early Treo smartphones to Vizio’s first Android tablet and novel video-analytics applications—combining deep embedded firmware, UI, and application expertise with strong program and people management. As a founding engineering leader at startups such as Vitamin D, he bridged technical strategy and investor-facing roles to shape product direction. Now semi-retired in Los Altos, he’s focused on family, learning Chinese, and personal development while retaining a pragmatic, product-first engineering mindset.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chinese
Github Skills (15)
updater7
pocket6
addon6
anki5
linux4
python3
micropython2
mamba2
pyright2
mypy2
vscode2
static-typing1
pylance1
pylint1
stubs1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rpetersnil/nes-pong
May 2021 - Jul 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
hikuinc/hiku_fw
Jan 2013 - Apr 2013
Contributions:77 commits in 2 months
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