David Robinson
Principle Software Engineer at Dr Pinball
Knutsford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Robinson is a principal software engineer with a degree in Physics with Electronics and over 30 years in industry, currently leading software efforts at Waters Corporation. He combines deep low-level expertise—evidenced by ARM assembly development and reverse engineering x86 into C—with modern application and integration experience across .NET, C#, IBM DataStage, and IoT projects. As a hands-on builder he created and commercialised a Raspberry Pi–based pinball display sold worldwide (500+ units) and has worked on embedded sensing, Bluetooth LE mobile integration, and cloud upload patterns. Comfortable in both technical leadership and individual contributor roles, he has a track record of mentoring teams, guiding complex migrations, and delivering production systems for banking, automotive and scientific instrument customers. Based in Knutsford, England, he blends pragmatic engineering with a collector’s passion for pinball and dot-matrix displays.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Roundhay School, LeedsPhysics with Electronics, 2ii, Physics with Electronics, 2ii at UMIST
English, French
Github Skills (10)
js9
javascript8
nodejs8
linux8
macos8
windows8
esp82665
firmware5
automation3
home-automation2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sigmafx/DotClk-Resources
Mar 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:55 commits, 48 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
sigmafx/DotClk-Help
Sep 2017 - Nov 2021
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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