Eion Robb
Head Of Technology at Pidgin
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolEion Robb is a seasoned technology leader and hands-on software engineer with 18 years building high-impact web platforms and integrations from Christchurch, New Zealand. Currently Head of Technology at Canterbury Museum, he rose through roles including CTO and senior developer at Opmetrix and founded MyJobSpace.co.nz, which he built solo and scaled to become New Zealand’s largest job board through pragmatic, security-minded engineering. He specializes in PHP/MySQL/LAMP stacks, Ajax/Web2.0, XSS prevention, data mining and web crawling, and has an enduring side-hobby as a prolific Pidgin plugin author enabling Skype and Facebook Chat connectivity. Comfortable toggling between individual contributor work and technical leadership, Eion has a track record of converting legacy systems into cross-platform, offline-first solutions and mentoring small teams to deliver measurable product gains.
18 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, BSc at University of Canterbury
Github Skills (200)
chat10
whatsapp10
pushbullet10
log-rotation10
xmpp10
finch10
jabber10
libpurple10
messaging10
cordova-plugin10
google-home10
google-hangouts10
slack10
facebook10
omemo10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
EionRobb/purple-discord
Apr 2017 - Nov 2022
A libpurple/Pidgin plugin for Discord
Contributions:40 reviews, 390 commits, 112 PRs in 5 years 7 months
discordlibpurple
EionRobb/pidgin-no-irc-who
Oct 2011 - Mar 2018
Contributions:1 release, 4 commits, 2 PRs in 6 years 5 months
pidginpythonirc
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