Keilin Bickar
Software Engineer at UFA Inc
Woburn, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKeilin Bickar is a software engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in voice and speech recognition systems, currently developing voice models for air traffic control simulators at UFA Inc. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an MS from Northeastern University, blending strong academic foundations with practical applied research. Keilin contributes to prominent open-source projects like Home Assistant, where he enhanced the Sense integration with refresh token support and device-specific energy trends and added SleepIQ foot warmer support—demonstrating attention to both privacy-preserving local automation and energy telemetry. His background includes internships at eBay and the Naval Air Systems Command speech lab, giving him experience with production mobile development and classified speech-testing tools. Known for pragmatic refactoring and thorough testing, he pairs systems-level thinking with hands-on backend development.
12 years of coding experience
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Northeastern University
Github Skills (12)
iot10
home-assistant10
python10
home-automation10
asyncio10
testing8
restful-api7
api-design7
mqttnet7
mqtt7
api-rest7
rest-api7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
home-assistant/core
Feb 2018 - Jan 2023
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:61 reviews, 45 commits, 63 PRs in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Keilin primarily contributed to the `sense` component, adding support for refresh tokens and device-specific energy trends. Their work involved modifying existing files like `__init__.py`, `config_flow.py`, and `test_config_flow.py` to incorporate these features. The user also introduced support for SleepIQ foot warmers, implementing select entities and tests for it. This also included refactoring to move certain attributes outside of the constructor and using lowercase options.
raspberry-pipythonhouseprivacy-firstasyncio
kbickar/sequitur-g2p
Oct 2018 - Aug 2022
This is a github repository of the abandonware Sequitur G2P by Bisani & Ney
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
g2pabandonware
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