Robin Whittleton
Inclusive Design Leader at IKEA
Svalövs kommun, Sweden
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Top SchoolRobin Whittleton is an Inclusive Design Leader with 17 years' experience shaping accessible, high-quality front-end engineering at scale, currently leading accessibility at IKEA. He has driven design system adoption (Skapa), moved the organisation from post-audit fixes to automated accessibility assessment, and built measurement and prototyping practices that inform strategic engineering decisions. Previously he led the front-end community at GOV.UK, helped start the GOV.UK Design System, and has deep practical experience shipping ecommerce checkout and shared components. A hands-on engineer as well as manager, he contributes to open-source projects like Standard Ebooks—where he improved EPUB tooling and ToC algorithms—demonstrating curiosity about both developer ergonomics and user-facing inclusivity. Based in Sweden, he blends technical ownership, people leadership, and a long-term commitment to making the web more usable for everyone.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Exeter
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Github Skills (20)
epub10
ebooklib10
python10
beautifulsoup10
regex10
docbook10
javascript9
css9
unicode9
text-files9
html9
posix6
slack6
newline6
css-selectors6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
robinwhittleton/web
Dec 2018 - Jul 2022
Source code for the Standard Ebooks website.
Contributions:24 pushes, 12 branches in 3 years 7 months
ebooksthe-standard
standardebooks/edgar-allan-poe_short-fiction
Jul 2020 - Nov 2022
Epub source for the Standard Ebooks edition of Short Fiction, by Edgar Allan Poe
Contributions:144 commits, 4 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 4 months
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