Rob Fries
Senior Firmware Hardware Manufacturing Engineer at [Startup]
Greater Phoenix Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Fries is a Senior Firmware, Hardware, and Manufacturing Engineer with 11 years of embedded and IoT-focused experience and a two-decade history architecting large-scale telecom and conferencing platforms. He has repeatedly taken products from concept to field deployment—designing hardware, firmware, OTA protocols, QA and manufacturing test systems, and navigating regulatory certification—often on very tight schedules. At Helium he built three wireless battery-powered sensors and a new OTA protocol in three weeks; at PGi he led innovations that scaled a VoIP conferencing platform handling tens of millions of minutes and half a billion dollars in annual revenue. Equally comfortable in startups and enterprise environments, Rob mentors teams, drives cross-functional collaboration, and emphasizes measurable improvements in reliability and operational efficiency. He also contributes to open-source testing work (scalatest), applying disciplined test automation and backend debugging skills to improve software quality. Based in Greater Phoenix, he blends deep hardware/firmware craft with systems thinking and a knack for launching practical products under real-world constraints.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Electronics Technology, Electronics Technology at College of DuPageGlenbard West, Glen Ellyn, IL
English, asl, Spanish
Github Skills (3)
testing10
property-based-testing10
scala10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
scalatest/scalatest
Dec 2014 - Jun 2015
A testing tool for Scala and Java developers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:49 commits, 24 PRs, 15 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Rob primarily contributed to the `scalatest/scalatest` repository by adding and modifying test cases. Their work included writing test cases for new features like `PosInt` and `PosLong` along with their associated methods. The user also addressed bugs in the documentation and implemented changes to existing code, specifically addressing and fixing misplaced comments. They also introduced tests for `round`, `ceil`, and `floor` methods.
javascalatesting
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