Summary
Robert Gallup is a multidisciplinary technologist, designer, and educator with 11+ years of experience building connected products, UX-driven prototypes, and online courses from Portland, Oregon. As founder of bobasoba and XOBXOB and a LinkedIn Learning instructor, he blends hands-on IoT engineering (NodeJS, C++, embedded platforms) with workshop-driven teaching—his courses on Arduino and CircuitPython have reached tens of thousands of learners. His background spans startups, corporate product teams (including Microsoft and Ziba), and incubator-honed entrepreneurship, enabling him to move fluidly between prototyping, product strategy, and storytelling. An uncommon mix of global travel, music-making, and photography informs a human-centered approach to problem solving and innovation.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Economics, B.A., Economics at University of Washington