Robin Whittleton
Inclusive Design Leader at IKEA
Svalövs kommun, Sweden
Summary
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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
Stackoverflow
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css
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text-files
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formatting
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unicode
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javascript
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html
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Github Skills (21)
epub10
ebooklib10
python10
formatting10
beautifulsoup10
regex10
docbook10
javascript9
css9
unicode9
text-files9
html9
posix6
slack6
newline6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
standardebooks/tools
May 2017 - Jan 2023
The Standard Ebooks toolset for producing our ebook files.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 195 commits, 175 PRs in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Robin primarily contributed to the Standard Ebooks tools, focusing on improving the epub production process. Their work involved extensive modifications to the `se/se_epub.py` file, addressing issues related to table of contents (ToC) generation, heading linting, and subtitle handling. They implemented new algorithms for subtitle inclusion in the ToC and refactored existing code for better maintainability. Furthermore, the user fixed a series of bugs related to incorrect and missing CSS classes, and added features for new releases.
ebookebookspythonebook-filesepub
Contributions:83 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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