Robin Newton
Staff Software Engineer at Arm
Greater Cambridge Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRobin Newton is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of multidisciplinary experience building robust systems across embedded audio, virtualization storage, and large-scale text-mining and geospatial platforms. With an MSc in Mathematical Foundations of Computing and a background spanning C/C++, Python, Java and cloud services, he combines rigorous theoretical training with hands-on delivery from low-level protocol work to web-scale services. He has shipped production audio and AR systems at Meta/Audio Analytic, improved virtualization storage and partner integrations, and contributed to open-source tooling such as requests-toolbelt (notably strengthening proxy digest authentication tests and logic). Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who moves smoothly between stakeholder engagement and deep technical implementation. Based in Greater Cambridge, he brings a rare blend of longevity across legacy systems and modern cloud-native practices.
12 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Advanced Computing (Mathematical Foundations of Computing), MSc Advanced Computing (Mathematical Foundations of Computing) at Imperial College London
Github Skills (8)
http10
user-authentication10
authentication10
python10
toolbox10
python-requests10
testing10
unit-testing9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
requests/toolbelt
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
A toolbelt of useful classes and functions to be used with python-requests
Role in this project:
Backend & QA Engineer
Backend & QA EngineerContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 9 days
Contributions summary:Robin primarily focused on enhancing the `requests-toolbelt` library's authentication capabilities, specifically for proxy digest authentication. Their contributions included addressing issues with handling non-digest challenges, and re-writing tests. The commits involve changes to the core authentication logic, including changes to the `http_proxy_digest.py` file and the associated test suites. They also added more robust tests and improved overall code quality.
toolbeltpythontoolboxpython3python-requests
rdn32/ragbag
Sep 2015 - Sep 2023
Contributions:2 pushes in 8 years 1 month
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