Robert Holt
Principal Data Engineer
Peterborough, New Hampshire, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Holt is a Principal Data Engineer with 14 years of experience blending software architecture, data engineering, and hands-on development to deliver reliable, scalable systems. Currently at Convergint after senior technical leadership roles at Splice, he has driven major rewrites of payments and data pipelines, advised finance teams, and set engineering strategy during periods of organizational change. He mentors engineers regularly, codifies maintainable patterns, and has a track record of improving uptime and safety through idempotent transactions, read replicas, and feature flagging. An active contributor to open-source, he refactored the popular p5.js library into AMD modules to improve modularity and compatibility for creative web developers. Based in New Hampshire with a BS in Economics from Georgia Tech, he combines product-minded architecture with pragmatic execution across backend, data, and front-end ecosystems. Colleagues rely on him for clear technical vision and steady delivery during complex migrations and high-stakes operational work.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Economics; International Affairs Minor, Bachelor of Science - BS Economics; International Affairs Minor at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
p5js10
amd10
html8
artwork7
graphic7
coding7
artnet7
ed255197
multiprocessing6
file-processing6
parallel-processing6
document-processing6
data-processing6
machine-learning6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
processing/p5.js
Jan 2014 - Jan 2014
p5.js is a client-side JS platform that empowers artists, designers, students, and anyone to learn to code and express themselves creatively on the web. It is based on the core principles of Processing. Looking for p5.js 2.0? http://beta.p5js.org
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits in 26 days
Contributions summary:Robert refactored the `p5.js` library into AMD-style modules. This involved changes to the core distribution file (`p5.js`) as well as the inclusion of the almond library. Additionally, the user updated several examples, including those related to the learning processing tutorials to point to the `dist` directory. These changes indicate a focus on modularity and improved compatibility within the p5.js ecosystem.
jsp5jsjavascriptgraphicsart
bobholt/web-platform-tests
Jan 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:33 PRs, 404 pushes, 39 branches in 8 months
web-platformtestingsuitesspecificationsw3c
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