Rod Vagg
Software Engineer at require.io
New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolRod Vagg is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience designing and building distributed systems, secure build infrastructure, and developer tooling across Node.js, Go, and related ecosystems. He has led core Node.js infrastructure and governance efforts—helping establish LTS and security processes—while architecting large-scale CI/CD and release pipelines used by the project and its website. As a contributor to high-profile open source projects (Node.js core, node-gyp, readable-stream, and IPFS-related repos) he blends low-level native addon work with practical web and front-end improvements. Rod’s consultancy and research roles span Protocol Labs and enterprise advising, where he focuses on content-addressed data, P2P systems, and secure patterns for Node.js at scale. A pragmatic “byte craftsman,” he’s equally comfortable refactoring C++ bindings and automating cross-platform builds, and he often surfaces brittle edge-case fixes (older IE quirks to ARM Raspberry Pi clusters) that others miss.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science at University of New England (AU)
Github Skills (103)
dependency-management10
testing10
bash10
ipfs10
file-operations10
automation10
native-ads10
ansible-galaxy10
bootstra10
web-development10
concurrency10
javascript10
event-handling10
async10
css-selectors10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
fat/bean
Sep 2011 - Jun 2015
an events api for javascript
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:160 commits, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Rod's commits focused on improving the event handling capabilities of the Javascript API. The commits addressed bugs in custom event handling within older versions of Internet Explorer and incorporated fixes to the fixEvent() function. The changes included the addition of the `one()` method to register event listeners that trigger only once. Furthermore, the user improved the delegation of event listeners for window and document, along with a rewrite of the registry used to store these listeners.
apijavascriptnodejsevents
ender-js/Ender
Sep 2011 - May 2015
the no-library library: open module JavaScript framework
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:209 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Rod contributed to the Ender.js project by making modifications related to the integration with the npm package manager. They implemented features for installing, uninstalling, and searching for packages through npm, modifying the project's build process and adding test cases. The user also made changes related to optimizing and controlling the logging behaviour and output of the build process. They also made changes to the test suite and build process including --force-install.
javascript-frameworkjavascriptframeworkno-librarynodejs
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