Bob Skib
Geek at geeksville
Duncan, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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RockstarBob Skib is an experienced embedded systems and backend engineer with 16 years building low-level firmware, IoT devices, and drone software from Duncan, BC. He designs and optimizes resource-constrained systems—examples include an RTSP server for ESP32-class CPUs and latency-optimized radio firmware for ArduPilot Si1000 modules—while also contributing to backend tooling like DroneKit, MAVProxy, and pymavlink. Comfortable across embedded C, Python, and Android, he has a track record of pragmatic fixes: shrinking buffers, improving packet handling, and adding deep-sleep and persistent storage to extend device battery life. Bob blends hands-on engineering with systems thinking, often improving robustness and performance in widely used open-source projects in the drone and mesh-comm ecosystems. He currently operates as "geek" at geeksville, continuing to ship compact, reliable connectivity and telemetry solutions.
16 years of coding experience
Github Skills (51)
platformio10
rtsp10
c-language10
mobile-development10
python10
apidoc10
mavlink10
testing10
gps10
firmware10
fm-radio10
proxy10
c1110
object-oriented-programming10
java10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
geeksville/Micro-RTSP
Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
A RTSP video server intended for very small CPUs (ESP32 etc)
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 5 PRs, 24 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Bob primarily contributed to the development of an RTSP video server for small CPUs, specifically targeting the ESP32 platform. Their work involved implementing core RTSP functionality, including handling various RTSP requests (OPTIONS, DESCRIBE, SETUP, PLAY, TEARDOWN). The user's commits demonstrate the integration of JPEG image streaming and the initialization of transport mechanisms, suggesting a focus on real-time video transmission over a network.
esp32rtsp
meshtastic/python
Apr 2020 - Nov 2021
The Python CLI and API for talking to Meshtastic devices
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:17 reviews, 385 commits, 59 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Bob's commits focused on developing the Python command-line interface (CLI) and API for Meshtastic devices. They implemented pypi boilerplate setup including creating setup.py, test-release.sh, and upload-release.sh scripts. The user also added protobuf stubs, built the node database, and implemented features like sendText() in preparation for an upcoming release to pypi. Additionally, they improved the serial communication and added test functionality.
clipythonmeshtasticmeshtastic-python
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