Rob Visentin
Principal Software Developer at Rocket Insights
Brienz, Berne, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Visentin is a Principal Software Developer with 12 years of experience building and leading mobile-first teams, currently driving product and engineering at Rocket Insights while co-founding Green Bee Creative to ship apps and mobile games. He specializes in iOS development, privacy-conscious location tracking, and reliable Bluetooth/exposure integrations — contributing to the open-source COVID Safe Paths project to improve location reliability and secure data storage. Rob progressed from intern to principal through roles as Mobile Lead and Senior Developer, blending hands-on engineering with team leadership and client-facing delivery. Based in Brienz, Switzerland, he brings a math-and-CS background from Bowdoin College and a proven track record of refactoring, encryption fixes, and robust feature delivery. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he often tackles hard-to-reproduce mobile bugs and submodule/configuration issues that quietly improve long-term app stability.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Greely High SchoolBA, Mathematics and Computer Science, BA, Mathematics and Computer Science at Bowdoin College
Github Skills (9)
location-services10
swift10
realm10
ios10
encryption9
uitest8
testing8
xctest8
exposure-notification8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Path-Check/safeplaces-dct-app
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
COVID Safe Paths (based on Private Kit) is an open and privacy preserving system to use personal information to battle COVID
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:39 commits, 31 PRs, 45 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Rob primarily focused on improving the iOS application's location reliability and secure data storage. They refactored code, fixed bugs related to encryption and database access, and addressed submodule issues. The user also implemented new functionalities like importing and removing locations, contributing to the overall robustness and efficiency of the location tracking features within the app. Additionally, they made code changes relating to the ExposureManager, which involved Bluetooth functionality and exposure key retrieval.
privacybattlepathspersonal-informationpersonal-use
Rightpoint/Raze
Apr 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:175 commits, 14 PRs, 57 pushes in 1 year 9 months
graphics-enginegame-developmentopenglgame-enginegraphics
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