Jake Robinson
Research Engineer II at Georgia Tech Research Institute
Dallas, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Robinson is a Research Engineer II with 12 years of hands-on experience in embedded design, digital signal processing, and reconfigurable hardware, currently driving hardware and software analysis at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. He blends electrical engineering rigor and practical software skills—VHDL, FPGA/CPLD design, Python tooling and data visualization—to deliver testable, sponsor-focused solutions for defense systems. Jake has progressed from student assistant roles to leading experimental setups and data recovery efforts, often interfacing with avionics protocols and RF control devices under DoD clearance. He also contributes to open-source tooling, improving robustness and maintainability in projects like a Python Twitter API wrapper, highlighting an attention to code quality beyond research work. Always pursuing deeper subject-matter expertise, he’s completing graduate studies in applied engineering while translating academic knowledge into fieldable embedded systems.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering at Southern Polytechnic State UniversityMaster's degree, Applied Engineering, Master's degree, Applied Engineering at Kennesaw State University
Github Skills (5)
api10
python10
apidoc10
http-request10
git9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bear/python-twitter
Aug 2013 - Apr 2014
A Python wrapper around the Twitter API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Jake contributed to the development and maintenance of the Python-Twitter library. Their work primarily involved refactoring code, improving readability, and fixing inconsistencies. They added dependencies to the project's setup and addressed issues by resolving merge conflicts. The user's changes focused on API requests, including updating the requests library and modifying how parameters were handled.
apipythonpython-wrappertwitter-api-v2twitter-api
jarobins/pychip8
May 2016 - Apr 2020
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
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