Rob Fallone
Staff Software Engineer at WatchGuard Technologies
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Fallone is a Staff Software Engineer and security-focused technologist with over 15 years of experience in networking security, programming and operational security roles and nine years of formal engineering experience. He has progressed from hands-on intrusion detection and SIEM operations to leading platform and customer-experience engineering teams, most recently at WatchGuard after multi-year senior roles at ActZero where he shaped MDR platform and full-stack solutions. Rob blends deep security auditing and penetration testing skills with pragmatic DevOps and backend development, contributing stability-focused fixes to open-source projects like xLights (notably around 3D rendering, playlists and crash reporting). Based in Barrie, Ontario, he’s known for being a self-starting, technically pragmatic team player who turns complex security requirements into auditable, production-ready systems.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
CYSE, Computers, Networking, Security, CYSE, Computers, Networking, Security at Georgian College
Github Skills (14)
wxwidgets10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
opengl9
debug9
debugging9
crash-reports9
develop8
error-handling8
object-oriented-programming8
file-access7
fileio7
file-handling7
file-processing7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
xLightsSequencer/xLights
Jan 2022 - Apr 2022
xLights is a sequencer for Lights. xLights has usb and E1.31 drivers. You can create sequences in this object oriented program. You can create playlists, schedule them, test your hardware, convert between different sequencers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 6 commits, 11 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Rob primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the xLights project. They addressed issues related to 3D mesh rendering, playlist functionality, and crash handling. The commits involved changes to core components, demonstrating a focus on stability and code quality, particularly within the xSchedule and OpenGL modules. They also worked on the integration and maintenance of the project's crash reporting system.
driversdmx512lightsusbsequencer
robfallone/xLights
Jan 2022 - Oct 2023
xLights is a sequencer for Lights. xLights has usb and E1.31 drivers. You can create sequences in this object oriented program. You can create playlists, schedule them, test your hardware, convert between different sequencers.
Contributions:2 PRs, 25 pushes, 18 branches in 1 year 9 months
driverslightsusbsequencerhardware
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