Robert Nix
Principal Software Development Engineer at Salesforce.org
Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Nix is a Principal Software Development Engineer with 16 years of experience building human-centered, scalable software across enterprise and startup environments. Currently at Salesforce.org and running his consultancy Nice Robot Corporation, he blends hands-on architecture with pragmatic developer empathy—"building nice software for humans" is both his mantra and specialty. His background includes leading microservices and distributed spatial-computation platforms at Spatially, driving core Java services at Oracle, and architecting automotive-grade systems at Xevo. He favors thoughtful, kind engineering practices that prioritize developer experience and reliability at scale. Based in Washington, he pairs deep systems and Java expertise with modern containerized and Go-based microservices patterns, and maintains an approachable public presence via nicerobot.io.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, A+, BS, Computer Science, A+ at University of Central Florida
toki pona, English
Github Skills (200)
interpreter10
chat10
client-library10
hydra10
hashicorp10
project-structure10
snapcraft10
json10
cassandra10
openid-connect10
oauth2-client10
keybase10
toml10
terragrunt10
hcl10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
text-plain/retime
Aug 2011 - Jun 2017
Contributions:20 commits, 2 pushes in 5 years 10 months
gomatic/funcmap
Feb 2017 - Sep 2020
Go template functions
Contributions:22 commits, 6 PRs, 21 pushes in 3 years 8 months
golangtemplatego-templatetemplate-functionsrecurly
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