Robb Owen
Contract Full-stack Developer at Robb Owen Digital Ltd
Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRobb Owen is a contract full-stack developer based in the Greater Bristol Area with eight years of professional experience building responsive, accessible front-ends and pragmatic server-side systems using JavaScript (React, Vue, ES6), Node/Express, Python/Flask and PHP/Laravel. He runs Robb Owen Digital Ltd and brings a history of senior and lead front-end roles at Great State and international experience from living and working in Japan. Robb pairs a designer’s eye with engineering craft—evident in his open-source work on a Synthwave VS Code theme and a performance-focused viewport library, tornis, where he optimized event handling and rendering. He emphasizes usability, accessibility and performance, with hands-on experience refactoring libraries for varied environments. Fluent in Japanese and trained in sound, image and communication technology, he blends cross-cultural communication skills with front-end UX sensibilities. Known for thoughtful UI polish and pragmatic engineering, he thrives on projects that sit at the intersection of design and performant web architecture.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
留学, Japanese language and communication, 留学, Japanese language and communication at Aoyama Gakuin UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Sound Image & communication technology /Japanese language & communication, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Sound Image & communication technology /Japanese language & communication at Oxford Brookes University
English, Japanese
Github Skills (7)
css10
javascript10
browser-api10
event-handling10
ui-design10
performance-optimization10
front-end-development9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
robb0wen/synthwave-vscode
Apr 2019 - Dec 2022
Synthwave inspired colour theme for VS Code 🌅🕶
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 96 commits, 51 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Robb primarily contributed to the visual styling and user interface aspects of the VS Code theme. Their work focused on implementing and refining the theme's "Neon Dreams" effects. Key contributions include adjusting editor background, active tab styling, sidebar element design, and lightbulb icon enhancements, all accomplished through CSS modifications. Furthermore, the user's commits involved integrating the "Neon Dreams" extension by modifying the workbench HTML and writing a javascript bootstrap template.
vscode
robb0wen/tornis
May 2019 - Apr 2022
Tornis helps you watch and respond to changes in your browser's viewport 🌲
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:46 commits, 12 PRs, 30 pushes in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Robb primarily contributed to the development of the `tornis` library, which focuses on viewport change detection. Their work involved the creation of core functionality, including throttling, and calculating various viewport-related metrics such as size, mouse position, and velocity. The commits show a focus on performance optimization by using requestAnimationFrame and handling resize and mouse events effectively. Additionally, the user refactored and prepared the library for different environments and usage scenarios.
viewport
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