Roger Whitcomb
PMC Member, Apache Pivot at The Apache Software Foundation
Roseburg, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRoger Whitcomb is a seasoned software architect and long-time Apache Software Foundation PMC member with roots in embedded and systems programming dating back to Z80 and 6502-era development. Over a multi-decade career he has designed and shipped software across microprocessors, mainframes, and enterprise systems in roles from technical marketing to VP and architect at companies such as Fairchild, Zilog, CA/Computer Associates, Actian, and Vynet. He specializes in C, C++ and Java and is known for a focus on high-quality, dependable software that often exceeds stakeholder expectations. Now based in Roseburg, Oregon, he remains active in open source as an Apache Pivot maintainer, bringing practical, low-level insight to modern projects. An interesting thread through his career is continuity: he evolved with the industry while keeping a hands-on engineering mindset even into retirement and ASF stewardship.
10 years of coding experience
37 years of employment as a software developer
Poudre High School, Fort Collins, COB.S., B.S. at Colorado State University
Spanish
Github Skills (32)
geode9
datagrid8
parse8
parsing8
java8
csharp7
java-api6
apache-poi6
cpp6
swift6
accumulo6
grammar6
php6
parser-generator6
sql6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rlwhitcomb/utilities
Aug 2016 - Mar 2023
Some of my personal utility programs
Contributions:1497 commits, 61 PRs, 1925 pushes in 6 years 8 months
personal-utilityprograms
rlwhitcomb/natorder
Nov 2021 - Oct 2022
Java Natural Order comparator
Contributions:5 pushes in 11 months
javacomparatornatural
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