Joel Drapper
Lead Software Engineer at Plane
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarJoel Drapper is a Lead Software Engineer with 11 years building scalable web experiences and a strong background in Ruby-centric systems, having held senior roles at Shopify and Clearscope and now leading engineering at Plane. He authors and maintains several notable open-source projects—Phlex and Literal among them—that focus on object-oriented views and UI composition in Ruby, reflecting a deep interest in clean server-side rendering and developer ergonomics. Joel blends full-stack craftsmanship with product-facing privacy work (formerly Senior Privacy Developer at Shopify), enabling him to navigate both API and frontend concerns. Based in the UK, he has a track record of shipping practical tooling and addressing subtle rendering edge cases, and cohosts the Rooftop Ruby community, signaling a commitment to mentoring and ecosystem-building.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
English
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Github Skills (11)
html10
uid10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
ruby10
sass6
heroku6
css6
javascript6
resque6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
phlex-ruby/phlex
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Object-oriented views in Ruby.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:60 releases, 269 reviews, 522 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Joel contributed to the development of UI components using Ruby, likely for server-side rendering or a similar approach. They worked on creating and defining various HTML elements and their attributes, and included a focus on styling. The commits show a clear effort to build a view framework, implementing features such as text handling, and integration with rails helpers. The user also addressed various edge cases and issues related to rendering.
railsframeworkrubyphlexview-components
joeldrapper/literal
May 2023 - Mar 2025
A literal Ruby gem. 💎
Contributions:9 releases, 60 reviews, 214 PRs in 1 year 10 months
enumsruby
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