Rob Edgell
Chief Technology Officer at Nickson
Cedar Park, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolRob Edgell is a seasoned technology executive and hands-on software leader with 15 years of experience scaling teams and shipping consumer-facing device and UI platforms. As CTO at Nickson and former Senior SW Engineering Manager at Roku, he built and led distributed engineering teams across Austin, San Jose, Cambridge and Kyiv to deliver international OS, firmware and UI features that enabled millions of device activations. He grew connected devices from concept to revenue-generating products at Fossil, architecting Android Wear solutions, rapid prototypes and cross‑vendor integrations with Google, Intel and Qualcomm. Known as a self-taught technologist with an eye for design, Rob blends product intuition and arts-driven UX sensibility to align engineering with consumer needs. He has a track record of rescuing legacy hardware through performance engineering and shipping multi-brand platforms at scale.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree General Studies, Bachelor's degree General Studies at University of North Texas
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Github Skills (7)
tailwind6
php6
rest6
react6
typescript5
storybook4
electron4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
robedge/jquery.instagram.js
Jun 2011 - Jul 2011
Contributions:32 commits in 19 days
robedge/edge-overlays-releases
Nov 2025 - Dec 2025
Contributions:16 releases, 8 pushes, 16 tags in 19 days
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