Bob Raker
Retired at Available for contract / part time opportunities
Pleasant Hill, California, United States
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Top SchoolBob Raker is a retired software engineer with around a decade of focused experience building and supporting SOA and ESB middleware, notably using DataPower and WebSphere. He led design and development of SOA intermediary components and a UDDI web service metadata repository at Charles Schwab, and has deep hands-on skills in Java, XML, XSLT and enterprise integration patterns. His background spans web authentication systems, proprietary data access engines, JMS integrations, and Oracle-based data warehousing from earlier roles. Based in Pleasant Hill, CA, he now seeks short-term contracts or part-time engagements where his middleware expertise and operational experience can be quickly leveraged. An approachable trainer and user-support advocate, he routinely translated complex SOA concepts into practical training and run-book material. Outside professional work he applies his programming skills to home automation projects, blending hobbyist curiosity with production-grade discipline.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Mechanical Engineering, BS, Mechanical Engineering at Colorado State University
Stackoverflow
24reputation
471reached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (17)
openhab10
java10
addon10
blackjack6
raspberry5
debian5
raspbian4
smartthings4
iot4
raspberry-pi4
home-automation4
esp323
knx3
esp82662
internet-of-things2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
BobRak/OpenHAB-Smartthings
Apr 2017 - Jan 2021
Contributions:1 review, 37 commits, 1 PR in 3 years 9 months
BobRak/BobRak.github.io
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 15 days
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