Robert Hickman
Senior Software Engineer at Adobe
Orem, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Hickman is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable backend services and polished front-end experiences, currently contributing to Adobe’s Analytics platform. He brings strong expertise in Python, C++, JavaScript, Docker, microservices, and data privacy compliance (GDPR), and has led technical workstreams as an individual contributor and technical lead. Robert’s background spans full-stack web apps, big-data C++ engines, and message-driven architectures using RabbitMQ and MariaDB, complemented by extensive git/GitHub practice. He’s an active open-source contributor to OpenSeadragon, improving navigation and image-rotation UX for a widely used deep-zoom viewer—reflecting a blend of front-end polish and systems thinking. Based in Orem, Utah, he holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Brigham Young University and often pairs pragmatic engineering with attention to user interactions.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at College Park High SchoolB.S. Computer Science, Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science, Computer Science at Brigham Young University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (14)
openseadragon10
javascript10
high-resolution10
viewer10
mariadb9
css8
html6
unix-timestamp6
php6
rename6
alter6
strtotime6
timestamp6
mysql6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openseadragon/openseadragon
May 2013 - Aug 2013
An open-source, web-based viewer for zoomable images, implemented in pure JavaScript.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Robert focused on implementing and refining features within the OpenSeadragon image viewer library. Their contributions centered on adding functionality to the navigation controls, specifically allowing previous and next buttons to wrap around the image sequence and incorporating image rotation. They modified JavaScript code related to viewer behavior, overlay positioning, and tile drawing, enhancing the user's interaction with the zoomable images. The user also updated documentation related to the added features.
imageviewerimagezoomable-imagesopenseadragonimage-viewer
robhobbes/moviefolio
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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