Robert Jang
Senior Software Engineer at Halcyon
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Jang is a Software Engineer II with 11 years of experience building reliable back-end systems, currently focused on Microsoft Azure IoT in Seattle. He brings a strong background in cloud and payments from prior roles at Microsoft, Amazon Payments, and systems modernization work at Northrop Grumman. An active open-source contributor to the popular Azure/iotedge project, he implemented and hardened a ring buffer for the MQTT bridge, improving data integrity and cross-architecture stability. Comfortable across legacy uplift and modern cloud-native patterns, he pairs practical production engineering with curiosity—spending spare time exploring Rust for side projects.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Auburn University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
mqtt10
storage10
bincode10
rust10
mqttnet10
azure-iot-edge10
ring-buffer10
serialization9
data-serialization9
error-handling9
concurrency8
pandas6
lstm6
tensorflow6
python6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/iotedge
Feb 2021 - Jan 2022
The IoT Edge OSS project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:426 reviews, 52 commits, 102 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the implementation of a ring buffer within the MQTT bridge. They added the initial ring buffer, restructured its layout, implemented flush tests, and addressed various code style and clippy issues. The user also focused on improving the error handling and data integrity of the ring buffer. Further contributions included stabilizing block headers across architectures and optimizing the initialization process of the ring buffer.
iot
nyanzebra/iotedge
Jan 2021 - Jul 2025
The IoT Edge OSS project
Contributions:408 pushes, 125 branches in 4 years 7 months
esxiossdevice-managementmqttedge
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