Robert Irving
Chief Engineer at Sierra Nevada Corporation
Holly Springs, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Irving is a seasoned software engineer and leader with 12 years of experience building cross-platform mobile and defense-grade systems, currently serving as Chief Engineer at Sierra Nevada Corporation. A Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio and former host of the CppCast podcast, he blends deep C/C++ and C#.NET expertise with pragmatic architecture and team leadership. He has a proven track record shipping consumer navigation apps (CoPilot) and enterprise geospatial/DOD software (WinTAK, TRAX & Cerberus) across iOS, Android, Windows Mobile and Windows Phone. Comfortable across toolchains—from Visual Studio and Xcode to Ruby, ANT and build automation—he often drives build and porting efforts that enable multi-platform delivery. Based in Holly Springs, NC, he pairs hands-on engineering with developer advocacy, having published apps and promoted Windows developer ecosystems. An early Windows Phone indie publisher turned defense chief engineer, he combines product-focused execution with deep systems-level skills.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at The College of New JerseyHigh School, High School at Montgomery High School
Stackoverflow
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62answers
3questions
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Github Skills (25)
raster10
vector10
podcast10
translator10
xaml9
data-formats9
geospatial9
gdal9
gis9
rasterio9
geotiff9
rotator7
cpp7
windows-phone6
debugging6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
robwirving/PodcastWP
Jan 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:21 commits in 6 months
phonewindowspodcasthelper-classwpf
robwirving/cppcast
Feb 2015 - May 2022
cppcast podcast website
Contributions:878 commits, 49 PRs, 818 pushes in 7 years 4 months
podcast-websitepodcast
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