Rob Brackett
Consultant at Brackett Development
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolRob Brackett is a consultant and seasoned UI designer-developer with 16+ years crafting accessible, standards-driven web interfaces and developer tooling from Sunnyvale, California. He blends interaction and graphic design sensibilities with broad full-stack engineering skills—(X)HTML, JavaScript/ECMAScript, CSS, Python, Ruby/Rails, C#/ASP.NET and more—to shape software that communicates clearly rather than merely exposes data. His work spans open-source contributions to notable projects like Electron and Titanium SDK (improving doc generation and core behaviors) and practical backend and CLI improvements for tools such as good_job and qri. Rob has led teams and volunteer engineering efforts for public-benefit projects (U.S. Digital Response, EDGI), bringing product-quality engineering to government and civic data use cases. He’s equally comfortable refactoring front-end plugins for reliability as he is hardening backend tooling and documentation, and speaks some German and Japanese—an asset for cross-cultural collaboration.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, New Media Information Technology, BS, New Media Information Technology at Rochester Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (52)
ruby-rails10
javascript10
postgresql10
electron10
titanium10
testing10
formatting10
command-line-interface10
typescript10
rails10
text-formatting10
browser-automation10
ruby10
go10
titanium-alloy10
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
segment-boneyard/nightmare
Feb 2016 - Dec 2016
A high-level browser automation library.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:69 commits, 24 PRs, 304 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Rob primarily contributed to the `nightmare` browser automation library by implementing features related to screenshot synchronization and improving the reliability of the `goto` action. They added tests for features like screenshot synchronization, page rendering, and navigation, while also addressing issues related to server connection interruption and unhandled protocols. The user also refactored the codebase, including the frame manager implementation, to enhance modularity and flexibility.
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pimterry/loglevel
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
:ledger: Minimal lightweight logging for JavaScript, adding reliable log level methods to wrap any available console.log methods
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 11 commits, 10 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Rob primarily focused on enhancing the `loglevel` JavaScript library. Their contributions involved adding new functionalities, such as the `setDefaultLevel()` method and implementing multiple logger instances, which improved the library's flexibility. They refactored the code and improved test coverage with new tests for various scenarios. The user also addressed bugs and improved the project's code style.
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