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Rob Helmer
Privacy Engineer & Full-Stack Developer
I build privacy-focused browser extensions and web services. During my 20+ years at Mozilla and other companies, I've worked as an industry collaborator with research teams from Stanford, Princeton, and MIT on privacy systems and telemetry platforms. I'm passionate about creating technology that actually protects users while still being useful for research and analytics.
Privacy Research Contributions
Contributed engineering work to multiple academic papers on privacy-preserving analytics and browser research platforms.
Browser Platform Development
Built web services, extensions, and telemetry systems serving millions of Firefox users with privacy-first design.
Latest Posts
6/19/2025
Can You Ditch Cookie Banners and Still Get Useful Analytics?
Explore cookieless analytics with Umami to ditch cookie banners while keeping useful insights. Privacy-first approach to GDPR compliance.
6/7/2025
Automatic, Configurable Analytics for Umami with umami-kit
Umami Kit is a drop-in enhancement for Umami Analytics. Scroll depth, time-on-page, visibility, and click tracking—no cookies, configurable, and privacy-first.