Robert Savage
Founder at Savage Software
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Savage is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 16 years of experience building embedded, cloud, and enterprise solutions from Knoxville, Tennessee. He has deep expertise bridging embedded systems and networked services—evidenced by contributions to Pi4J’s Raspberry Pi Java I/O library and a history of integrating hardware protocols like I2C, SPI and UART. After two decades in professional audio-visual and control systems engineering at AMX by HARMAN, he shifted to entrepreneurship, founding Savage Software and shadeBlue to deliver custom products and advanced terminal emulation tools. He blends hands-on low-level engineering with product strategy and cloud architecture, having led teams that built enterprise management and cloud-based monitoring platforms. Pragmatic and client-focused, he often turns complex, device-level problems into deployable services and reusable open-source examples. His background in AV and hospitality IT gives him a practical, systems-oriented perspective that surfaces useful real-world constraints early in design.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Regis University
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Github Skills (14)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Pi4J/pi4j-v1
Sep 2012 - Mar 2021
Java I/O library for Raspberry Pi (GPIO, I2C, SPI, UART)
Role in this project:
Back-end & Embedded Systems Engineer
Back-end & Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:2 releases, 5 reviews, 943 commits in 8 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Robert's contributions primarily focused on low-level embedded systems programming, likely for a Raspberry Pi platform. They addressed issues related to hardware access, including I2C and SPI communication with various sensors, and also integrated device drivers and hardware-specific configurations. In addition, the user demonstrated skills in building and compiling for the target platform by modifying the build scripts. The user also provided comprehensive code examples for a broad range of applications.
raspberry-pigpioi2craspberryraspberry-pi-gpio
SavageSoftware/portainer-backup
Mar 2022 - Aug 2022
Portainer Backup Utility
Contributions:2 releases, 33 commits, 28 pushes in 5 months
backupbackup-scriptdockerdocker-composedocker-container
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