Robert Vandervoort
Founder And CEO at VDV Labs
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Vandervoort is a founder, seasoned solutions architect and sales-engineering leader with 11+ years of experience turning complex enterprise needs into revenue-driving technical solutions. He has a strong track record at companies like AppDynamics, Splunk, Moveworks and Cisco, consistently closing large deals and accelerating sales cycles through outcome-based selling and technical enablement. Equally comfortable in pre-sales and hands-on engineering, he builds practical AI and observability tools—recent projects include a data-extraction tool that shrinks environment analysis from days to minutes and an AI-powered call-transcription/analysis pipeline. He contributes to IoT and embedded projects on GitHub, integrating Z-Wave devices with SmartThings, and pursues side projects in web3, QR tooling and a “Digital Twin” chatbot extension. Known for mentoring teams, leading enablement programs, and bridging business and technical stakeholders, he thrives in high-growth, agile environments. Based in Houston, he combines a curiosity for HCI, additive manufacturing and DevSecOps with a pragmatic focus on solving measurable business problems.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Honor's in Major Psychology, BS Honor's in Major Psychology at University of Houston
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Github Skills (8)
iot10
embedded10
smartthings10
sys10
handlers10
groovy10
home-automation10
sharepoint6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
robertvandervoort/SmartThings
Jun 2015 - May 2018
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:101 commits, 5 PRs, 95 pushes in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributes to device handler code for SmartThings, focusing on integrating Z-Wave devices like doorbells and door/window sensors. Their work includes creating device types, defining capabilities, parsing Z-Wave messages, and implementing functionality such as motion detection, alarm control, and battery monitoring. The user's changes involve writing Groovy code to interact with and control these smart home devices and integrating them with the SmartThings platform.
robertvandervoort/SmartThingsPublic
Jun 2018 - Oct 2019
SmartThings open-source DeviceTypeHandlers and SmartApps code
Contributions:30 commits, 27 pushes in 1 year 4 months
smartthingssmartphonetabletcensorship-resistanceiot
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