Jason Robitaille
Staff Software Engineer at LG Electronics
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolJason Robitaille is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building scalable front-end ReactJS interfaces and Node.js backends for embedded and consumer platforms. Based in Mountain View, he has driven architecture and launch efforts at LG Electronics, modernizing the Enact framework and CI/build systems while leading public-facing product and platform work like SVLSimulator. An early webOS contributor and maintainer of Cordova/enyo integrations, he brings deep cross-platform and embedded-web expertise—down to parsing platform-specific configs and improving touch/caching behaviors. Jason combines hands-on full-stack development with developer-experience improvements for internal and open-source users, and has a history of shipping community-facing tooling and apps dating back to his university years.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of Manitoba
Github Skills (10)
web-framework10
javascript10
nodejs10
mobile-development10
front-end-development10
cordova10
file-management9
configuration-management8
version-control8
xml-parsing8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
enyojs/enyo
Aug 2013 - Nov 2017
A JavaScript application framework emphasizing modularity and encapsulation
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:63 commits, 5 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the Enyo JavaScript framework by fixing bugs, updating the version string, and improving the platform detection capabilities. They addressed issues related to touch event handling, requestAnimationFrame usage on iOS, and incorrect caching of touch positions. The user also updated the framework to the release candidate versions and finalized the versioning for a new major release. Furthermore, the user made a code style change, switching to single quotes throughout the project.
modularityencapsulationjavascriptframeworkapplication-framework
apache/cordova-lib
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Apache Cordova Tooling Library
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Jason primarily focused on enhancing the webOS platform support within the Cordova library. Their contributions included creating parsers for project creation and manipulation, specifically adding and modifying `webos_parser.js` to manage app information and configuration. They also modified platform-specific code (`webos.js`) related to plugins and file management, and updated the core code to handle assets and icon/splash screen locations more effectively for the webOS platform.
objective-ccordovaapache-cordovajavascriptapache
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