Rob Nielsen
Software Engineering Manager at Moov
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolRob Nielsen is a pragmatic software engineering manager with 11 years in leadership and over two decades of hands-on development experience, currently leading engineering at Moov from Colorado Springs. He progressed through technical and managerial roles at payments firms including BluePay and Fiserv, where he moved from lead developer to director-level IT and application development management. Comfortable in both back-end engineering and operational leadership, Rob has driven stability and refactoring efforts in production systems and reduced technical debt while improving observability. An active open-source contributor to the widely used openHAB project, he improved Insteon device integrations by tackling edge cases and reliability issues—an example of his attention to real-world interoperability. Colleagues describe him as a steady executor who combines legacy-system fluency with modern engineering practices to deliver dependable systems.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
University of Colorado BoulderMonmouth College
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Github Skills (13)
javas10
openhab10
addin10
addon10
java10
api-design9
sys9
api9
apim9
embedded9
rest-api4
api-rest4
restful-api4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openhab/openhab-addons
Mar 2020 - Nov 2022
Add-ons for openHAB
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:113 reviews, 48 commits, 58 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Rob primarily contributed to the Insteon binding, focusing on improving the functionality and stability of the integration with Insteon devices. Their work included removing dependencies, handling edge cases, and addressing potential issues with the device initialization and status updates. The user also refactored and improved code related to logging and corrected potential issues identified by static analysis tools.
add-onsopenhabaddonjavaons
openhab/openhab1-addons
Dec 2014 - May 2020
Add-ons for openHAB 1.x
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 22 PRs, 177 comments in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Rob primarily contributed to the Insteon PLM binding, focusing on improving the functionality and reliability of the Insteon device integration within openHAB 1.x. Their work involved implementing features for keypad dimmers, addressing issues with duplicate messages, and handling dimmer level reporting inconsistencies. The user also made several code changes to improve the device's ability to communicate and work well with the binding's features.
add-onsopenhabaddononsinternet-of-things
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