Rob Becker
Engineering Manager at Workiva
Missoula, Montana, United States
Summary
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RockstarRob Becker is an experienced engineering manager with 11 years in software, currently leading teams at Workiva from Missoula, Montana. He blends hands-on front-end development with people leadership, having contributed practical improvements to open-source tooling like a Dart GitHub client—focused on better examples, type fixes, and removing fragile dependencies to improve developer experience. Known for shipping thoughtful, user-focused improvements, he bridges product needs and engineering execution while coaching teams to deliver reliable web applications. His background suggests a pragmatic approach: prioritizing clean examples and developer ergonomics as much as system reliability.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (5)
html10
webbrowser10
web-development10
browser10
dart10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
SpinlockLabs/github.dart
Oct 2018 - Nov 2022
GitHub Client Library for Dart
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:22 releases, 5 reviews, 137 commits in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Rob focused on improving the examples within the GitHub client library for Dart. They addressed type errors, implemented a token input with session storage, and cleaned up example initialization methods. Further improvements included adding a view source query parameter, removing external network dependencies, and removing a dev dependency on markdown. These changes primarily involved modifying example files, focusing on improving the user experience and functionality of the provided demos.
dart
Workiva/font_face_observer
Nov 2016 - Apr 2022
Load and unload fonts in the browser with a Promise based API. Simple, small and efficient. It will use the FontFace api if available, otherwise it falls back to a Dart port of https://github.com/bramstein/fontfaceobserver
Contributions:14 reviews, 183 commits, 20 PRs in 5 years 5 months
dartfont-face
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