Robert Oates
Software Localization Engineer
Osaka, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Oates is a software localization engineer with eight years of professional experience who combines hands-on development skills with localization project leadership at Keywords Studios in Osaka. He brings a long history of web and backend engineering—Perl, PHP, WordPress, jQuery, ASP—and has worked across e-commerce, higher education, and agency environments. As Localization Engineering Project Lead he pairs technical problem-solving with coordination of remote teams to deliver localized software reliably. Early experience administering Linux/Apache/Tomcat and building integration scripts gives him a strong operational grounding often hidden behind localization roles. He started coding on a TRS-80 Color Computer 3 as a child and still favors pragmatic, scriptable solutions to automate repetitive translation and deployment tasks. Robert holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of South Florida and is based in Japan, bringing cross-cultural perspective to global product releases.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor's of Science, Computer Science at University of South Florida
Japanese
Github Skills (8)
excel10
npm-cli9
spreadsheet9
dotnet9
parser8
x-plane7
npm7
multiplayer3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
righthandpaw/xivap-fsd-server
Sep 2018 - Oct 2018
Multi-player flight server based on FSD protocol for X-Plane XIVAP multi-player plugin
Contributions:30 commits, 6 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 month
multiplayerx-plane
righthandpaw/x-antarctica
Mar 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 2 months
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