Eric Dobbertin
Principal Software Engineer at QA Wolf
Plymouth, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Dobbertin is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building full-stack JavaScript platforms and leading engineering efforts at QA Wolf while running two small companies, Dairy State Designs and Longshot Labs. He brings deep expertise in Meteor, Node.js, React, and GraphQL, with notable open-source contributions to widely used projects like Meteor and Reaction Commerce where he refactored core plugins and improved security-sensitive flows. Comfortable across backend validation, schema design, and frontend storefront work, he has a track record of shipping maintainable code, test improvements, and cross-cutting refactors that modernize legacy systems. As a founder-operator who also teaches coding sometimes, he blends hands-on implementation with product-minded thinking and developer ergonomics. Based in Plymouth, Wisconsin, he pairs entrepreneurial grit from running small businesses with enterprise-scale engineering practices.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BBA, Business Administration and Management, General, BBA, Business Administration and Management, General at St. Norbert CollegePreble High School
Github Skills (39)
unit-testing10
javascript10
dashboard10
schema-validation10
coffeescript10
admin10
validations10
testing10
css10
arrayobject10
nextjs10
datatable10
validation10
mongodb-database10
blaze10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Meteor-Community-Packages/meteor-collection2
Jul 2013 - Nov 2019
A Meteor package that extends Mongo.Collection to provide support for specifying a schema and then validating against that schema when inserting and updating.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 247 commits, 18 PRs in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the core functionality of a Meteor package that extends Mongo.Collection. Their work involved refactoring the codebase, implementing validation logic, and adding unique constraint support. The commits demonstrate a strong understanding of the package's internal workings and focus on how it interacts with SimpleSchema for schema-based validation and modification. They also updated the package for Meteor 0.6.5 and made the package backward compatible.
meteormeteor-packagemongoupdatingmongodb
Meteor-Community-Packages/meteor-tabular
Oct 2014 - Nov 2016
Reactive datatables for large or small datasets
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 118 commits, 41 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Eric made several commits related to the `meteor-tabular` repository, a reactive datatables component for Meteor. Their contributions focused on implementing features, fixing bugs, and improving the component's functionality. Key changes include adding the ability to handle arrays within the data, making searching case-insensitive with an option to configure this behavior, and generally improving the component’s core functionality.
datasetsdatatablesreactiveblazedatatable
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