Robert Farnum
Software Engineer at Comcast
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarRobert Farnum is a Software Engineer based in Austin, Texas with eight years of hands-on experience and a deep interest in IoT. He brings practical engineering skills honed across embedded and cloud-connected systems, pairing device-level insight with software delivery. Known as a distinguished engineer on GitHub for IoT work, he focuses on making connected products reliable and maintainable in real-world conditions. Comfortable across firmware, backend services, and integration layers, he favors pragmatic solutions that scale from prototypes to production. Colleagues rely on him to translate ambiguous hardware-software requirements into robust implementations that keep product timelines moving.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (32)
opc10
lte10
connections10
connectivity10
compatibility10
testing9
messaging9
openthread9
freertos9
iot9
test-automation8
automation8
zephyr8
tcp8
gorilla8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
robertfarnum/connectedhomeip
Apr 2021 - Mar 2025
Project Connected Home over IP is a new Working Group within the Zigbee Alliance. This Working Group plans to develop and promote the adoption of a new connectivity standard to increase compatibility among smart home products, with security as a fundamental design tenet.
Contributions:7 PRs, 46 pushes, 34 branches in 3 years 11 months
home-automationconnectedtenethome-assistantpromote
robertfarnum/plax
Jan 2021 - Jan 2024
A test automation engine for messaging systems
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 3 years
test-automationtestingautomation-engineautomationmessaging
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