Rob Arnold
Founder at Loci Consulting
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorRob Arnold is a founder and seasoned technology generalist with 18+ years of experience building product-ready systems across startups and established companies, blending hands-on low-level engineering with infrastructure, DevOps, and product leadership. He designs and ships real-time and embedded solutions—spanning RTOS, Linux, media/HEVC, IP networking, and IoT devices—while also architecting company infrastructure, CI/CD, and security for operational scale. As CEO/CTO and consultant he’s repeatedly moved ideas from prototype to production, from camera capture R&D to distributed build-system improvements (notably cross-platform Android NDK work on the popular Buck build tool). Based in San Diego, he combines systems-level pragmatism with creative problem solving—often tackling the gnarly bugs others avoid—and enjoys small, elegant engineering wins like low-power sensor firmware and clever utilities for consumer devices.
18 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (9)
javas10
buck10
python10
build-automation10
java10
test-automation10
android9
windows9
cicd8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/buck
Aug 2013 - Jan 2015
A fast build system that encourages the creation of small, reusable modules over a variety of platforms and languages.
Role in this project:
Backend & Automation Engineer
Backend & Automation EngineerContributions:8 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Rob primarily focused on enhancing the build system, specifically the Android NDK integration within the Buck build tool. They implemented checks for supported NDK versions and added support for NDK r9, improving build process stability. Further contributions include refactoring and improvements to Python library handling and test execution, especially on Windows, which demonstrates an understanding of cross-platform compatibility issues. They also made changes to the test environment, including the inclusion of the `PATHEXT` variable.
buckpythonplatformsandroidlanguages
sdwilsh/tree-bot
Jun 2011 - Jun 2011
Contributions:32 commits in 11 days
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