Bobby Warner is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur based in Minneapolis, serving as Founder and President of Agile Orbit with 14 years of experience delivering pragmatic architecture and engineering solutions. He founded the MidwestJS conference and is a Grails committer and active open-source maintainer, contributing to Apache Grails core and GORM. At Target he led enterprise mobile strategy and developer programs, translating partner needs into scalable technical solutions and governance. His hands-on expertise spans Groovy/Grails, Java (Spring/Hibernate), modern JavaScript frameworks, native iOS/Android, and both relational and NoSQL datastores. A frequent speaker and pragmatic problem-solver, he’s known for balancing architecture and delivery while performing low-level maintenance work—such as dependency updates and GORM bug fixes—that keeps platforms stable and forward-compatible.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, Economics, BA, Computer Science, Economics at University of St. Thomas
Contributions:174 commits, 17 PRs, 36 pushes in 9 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Bobby contributed to the Grails Web Application Framework, focusing on improving the core functionality of the framework and its plugins. They fixed bugs and implemented enhancements, primarily involving updates to converters, Javascript tag libraries, and tag libs. Their work also included updating dependencies like jQuery and Groovy, demonstrating a focus on maintaining the framework's compatibility and features.
Contributions:9 commits, 6 pushes, 2 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Bobby primarily focused on maintaining and updating plugin configurations related to different datastores for the Grails Data Mapping project. Their contributions involved fixing documentation links and updating URLs within plugin configurations, specifically for plugins like MongoDB, DynamoDB, SimpleDB, Redis, Neo4j, and JPA. Additionally, the user addressed a bug related to the population of `dateCreated` and `lastUpdated` properties within the GORM framework and later reverted those changes.
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Bobby Warner - Founder And President at Agile Orbit