Robert Long
Senior Lead Software Engineer at Unicon, Inc.
Rockford, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Long is a Senior Lead Software Engineer with over 16 years of experience specializing in learning management systems, content platforms, and cloud-based deployments for education and government. At Unicon he has led technical efforts on large-scale LMS integrations, single sign-on solutions for young learners, and an open-source Sakai implementation used by multiple institutions. A long-time Sakai contributor and former systems administrator for Sakai, Kaltura and BigBlueButton, he blends deep Java/Spring full-stack skills with hands-on ops experience in Docker, CI tooling and database scripting. He began his career as a math teacher and university educator, which informs his pragmatic approach to instructional technology and product design. Known for mentoring peers through internal forums and conference talks on LTI and Learning Analytics, he brings both classroom empathy and open-source stewardship to complex educational software projects.
12 years of coding experience
Master of Arts Instructional Technology, Master of Arts Instructional Technology at Saginaw Valley State University
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Github Skills (12)
javas10
javascript10
sakai10
java10
lms9
api8
apim8
tomcat8
ed255198
api-design8
session-replication6
scaling6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sakaiproject/sakai
Mar 2014 - Jul 2016
Sakai is a freely available, feature-rich technology solution for learning, teaching, research and collaboration. Sakai is an open source software suite developed by a diverse and global adopter community.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 29 PRs, 25 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the Sakai project by implementing and modifying features within the syllabus application and core components. Their work involved enhancing the syllabus functionality by enabling the addition of syllabus content, beyond just the title. The user also addressed backend and core system issues, like fixing invalid logic related to JSON statements in the kernel and refactoring code within the gradebook service to incorporate grader ID and date from grade definitions. Additionally, there were contributions to the content hosting and learning resource store services.
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Unicon/Articulate.TinCanAPI
Apr 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:69 PRs, 131 pushes, 34 branches in 3 months
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