Robert Hillis
Enterprise Applications Developer
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Hillis is an Enterprise Applications Developer based in New Jersey with nine years of IT experience, currently building internal systems at News Corp while also supporting users as a Help Desk Analyst. He combines a practical accounting background with hands-on engineering, bringing a detail-oriented, user-first mindset to application development and support. An active open-source contributor, Robert has improved Home Assistant integrations by implementing reauthentication flows and reliability fixes for popular home automation components. Comfortable working across backend integration, configuration management, and user workflows, he focuses on making things easier and more reliable for both end users and operators.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Accounting, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Accounting at The College of New Jersey
Github Skills (10)
home-assistant10
configurations10
python10
configuration-file10
testing9
api9
apim9
iot8
asyncio8
home-automation8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
home-assistant/core
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:485 reviews, 548 commits, 652 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Robert implemented reauthentication flows for the Skybell and Litterrobot integrations within the Home Assistant core. This involved modifying configuration flows to handle reauthorization, including adding user input steps and updating data. The contributions demonstrate an understanding of configuration entry management, integration setup, and error handling within the Home Assistant framework. Further, the user was involved in rework related to the Accuweather sensors and the addition of a button for giving a snack on FeederRobot.
raspberry-pipythonhouseprivacy-firstasyncio
tkdrob/core
Oct 2020 - Dec 2022
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first
Contributions:618 commits, 3 PRs, 1039 pushes in 2 years 2 months
raspberry-pihouseprivacy-firstprivacygarden
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