Robert Messerle is a Senior UI Engineer with 14 years building polished, production front-ends for top-tier tech companies including Google, Facebook, Reddit, and currently Netflix. He specializes in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and has deep practical experience shipping and maintaining component libraries—contributing notable fixes and feature work to widely used projects like Angular Material. Comfortable across stacks (Node.js, PHP, Rails) and release workflows, he’s repeatedly driven UI quality through tests, accessibility-focused fixes, and spec-driven implementations such as ripples and slider behavior. Based in New Jersey, he pairs large-company scale experience with hands-on craftsmanship and an appetite for tinkering, whether that’s rewriting a ripple effect or playing a mean cowbell.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
PJHS
Bachelor of Science (BS), Web Development, Bachelor of Science (BS), Web Development at Pennsylvania College of Technology
Contributions:768 commits, 87 PRs, 1432 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Robert's commits primarily focus on the development and improvement of UI components within the Angular Material framework. They've implemented tests for button attributes, fixed discrete slider thumb text updates during dragging, and rewritten the ripple effect to match specifications. Additionally, the user has made layout attribute updates to the index template, and implemented several style changes to the website's layout and documentation.
This repository is used for publishing the AngularJS Material v1.x library
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:13 commits, 52 pushes, 51 tags in 3 months
Contributions summary:Robert's commits primarily involve updating and releasing new versions of the AngularJS Material library, specifically version 0.7.0, 0.7.1, 0.8.0-rc1, 0.8.0, 0.8.1, 0.8.2, 0.8.3, and 0.9.0-rc1. These updates include changes to the core components of the library, suggesting a focus on maintaining and improving the existing feature set. The user is updating CSS and JavaScript code and releasing these updates which is crucial for the Angular Material library. This indicates an active role in the development and release management of the project.
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