Neil Kolban
Data Analytics Specialist - Customer Engineer
North Richland Hills, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolNeil Kolban is a Data Analytics Specialist and Customer Engineer at Google with 17 years of professional experience and over 30 years in IT, specializing in Google Cloud data products like BigQuery, Dataproc and Dataplex. He combines deep systems and embedded IoT expertise—demonstrated by significant open-source contributions to Espruino and the widely used ESP32 BLE Arduino library—with strong customer-facing design and implementation skills. A published author of eight technical books and prolific educator, he champions technical writing and tutorial videos to push public knowledge. Known for translating complex requirements into robust solutions, he brings a curious, hands-on mindset from WiFi sensors to embedded Linux and maintains a workshop that reflects his experimental approach to engineering.
17 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Honors (masters), Computer Science, Honors (masters), Computer Science at University of Glasgow
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (32)
javascript10
google-cloud-platform10
c-language10
gcloud10
google-cloud-functions10
c1110
esp826610
google-cloud-storage10
c1710
jscript10
btle10
javascript-engine10
sys10
esp3210
embedded10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
nkolban/ESP32_BLE_Arduino
Sep 2017 - Jun 2018
The library source for the ESP32 BLE support for Arduino.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 25 commits, 3 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Neil made numerous updates to the `esp32_ble_arduino` library, suggesting deep involvement in its development. The commits involve modifications to core BLE functionality, including the `BLERemoteCharacteristic` class, which handles characteristic interactions within the BLE framework. The user added platform-specific logging and made changes to example code. The updates include changes to various core files within the library, and examples, indicating active maintenance and enhancement of the library's capabilities.
arduino-librarybleesp8266arduinoesp32
espruino/Espruino
Aug 2015 - Nov 2016
The Espruino JavaScript interpreter - Official Repo
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:128 commits, 57 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Neil primarily contributed to the Espruino JavaScript interpreter, adding support for the XTENSA processor type and modifying existing code to include parenthesis around print statements. They also worked on integrating hardware-specific functions, as demonstrated by the addition of ESP8266 board-specific files and updates to the SPI library to enable testing. Further modifications were made to ensure compatibility of OS printf with integers in the targets/esp8266 directory.
javascriptinterpreterespruinojavascript-interpreter
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