Robert Jenner
WebKit Triage Engineer at Apple
Cupertino, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Jenner is a WebKit Triage Engineer at Apple with over a decade of hands-on Apple support experience and six years focused on WebKit quality and reliability. He evolved from frontline roles like Mac Genius and Failure Analysis into build sheriff and triage positions, where he watches CI, bisects regressions, authors detailed bug reports, and reverts urgent breaking changes. An active contributor to WPEWebKit QA, his commits show a pragmatic focus on test maintenance and platform-specific failure isolation across macOS and iOS. Based in Cupertino and an outspoken Apple evangelist, he combines deep customer-facing product knowledge with low-level troubleshooting skills, making him adept at translating user issues into actionable engineering fixes. He also brings niche expertise in automotive coding for Volkswagen Group vehicles and a long personal history with Apple hardware that informs his approach to software reliability.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Industrial and Product Design, Industrial and Product Design at Irvine Valley CollegeSouth Orange County School of the Arts/ Dana Hills High School
Github Skills (6)
test-automation10
ios9
cprogramming-language7
objective-c7
macos7
c-language7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
WebPlatformForEmbedded/WPEWebKit
Feb 2021 - Aug 2022
WPE WebKit port (downstream)
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:319 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Robert's commits primarily involve modifying and disabling existing tests, suggesting a focus on test maintenance and issue resolution. The changes frequently involve disabling tests marked as failing on specific platforms (Monterey, iOS) due to known issues. The user also addresses test failures related to WebKit API functionalities, demonstrating involvement in the quality assurance of the WebKit project.
wpedownstreamwebkit
robert-jenner/WebKit
Apr 2022 - Apr 2025
Official git mirror of the WebKit repository, https://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit, future canonical repository.
Contributions:840 pushes, 675 branches in 2 years 11 months
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