Robbie Wagner
Staff Engineer at Ship Shape
Great Falls, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobbie Wagner is a Staff Engineer and longtime Ember.js evangelist with over a decade of experience building ambitious web applications, from early PHP/jQuery work to modern frameworks like Svelte, Astro, Nuxt and Next.js. He founded Ship Shape, an Ember-focused consultancy that served clients such as Apple and Netflix, and has contributed directly to core Ember projects (including ember.js and ember-inspector) and popular addons like ember-power-select and ember-electron. At ART19 and in client engagements he’s driven architecture, reusable component libraries, monorepo improvements and developer experience gains, often pairing feature work with mentoring to multiply team impact. He cohosts the Whiskey Web and Whatnot podcast, exploring the human side of web development, and frequently produces tutorials and docs—an indication that he values both craft and community. Notably, his open-source contributions include route testing blueprints for ember.js and modernization efforts that removed legacy globals and jQuery, reflecting a focus on keeping ecosystems current and accessible.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Virginia TechAdvanced Studies, Advanced Studies at Lord Botetourt High School
French
Github Skills (33)
accessibility10
javascript10
react-components10
electron10
jes10
testing10
component-development10
css10
sass10
ember-cli10
glimmerjs10
react-component10
emberjs10
component-kit10
qunit10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
shipshapecode/tether
Sep 2019 - Jun 2022
A positioning engine to make overlays, tooltips and dropdowns better
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 7 reviews, 112 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Robbie's contributions primarily revolved around improving the user interface and development setup of the "tether" repository. They added initial setup and implementation for Jest unit tests, which indicates a focus on testing front-end components. Further work included converting Sass files to Scss format and updating example files, demonstrating work with CSS and HTML. They also added basic Cypress tests, indicating a commitment to testing and UI component validation.
tooltipsjavascriptposition
shipshapecode/shepherd
Jun 2018 - Dec 2022
Guide your users through a tour of your app
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:108 releases, 107 reviews, 700 commits in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Robbie primarily contributed to the front-end of the application, updating the `index.html` and the `docs/welcome/index.html` files. The changes include modifications to the HTML structure, the addition of links (e.g., "View Docs", "Install") and the inclusion of code snippets. Furthermore, the user updated the JavaScript library `popper` suggesting they are working on the presentation layer of the application.
shepherd
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