Robert Lipe
Lead Developer at Groundspeak
Nashville Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Lipe is a seasoned lead developer with decades of low-level and cross-platform expertise, best known as the creator and long-time lead of GPSBabel, a widely used open-source tool with over 40M downloads. He has shipped kernel and device-driver infrastructure for major vendors at SCO and helped bring embedded networking products to market at Digi, including co-inventing two patents. At Google he delivered high-impact features and ports for a billion-download product, led Android material-design work and multi-architecture builds, and helped train communities to map and protect their lands. Comfortable from wafer-level simulations and logic analyzers to C++/Qt UI rewrites, he excels at turning hard systems problems into reliable products. After early medical retirement he continues to contribute to GPSBabel and explores RISC-V microcontroller work to keep his skills sharp. Known for quietly shepherding projects into wide distribution, he pairs deep technical craft with a long history of cross-platform portability and user-focused engineering.
10 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programming Electronics, Computer Programming Electronics at Self-educated
English
Github Skills (109)
gps-tracking10
python10
windows10
gps10
alternate10
micropython10
qt-gui10
embedded10
temperature10
hex10
tesla10
qt10
linux10
duplicate-detection10
data-transfer10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
GPSBabelDeveloper/opensources
May 2017 - Mar 2023
Curated lists of credible and non-credible online sources, available for public use
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
commonslistscurated-listssources
gpsbabel/quick-bench-front-end
Feb 2019 - Sep 2020
Front end side of quick-bench
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
front-endreactbench
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