Rodney Rehm
UI-Architekt at Deutsche Telekom
Waldshut, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolRodney Rehm is a seasoned UI architect with 17 years of experience building customer-facing web and mobile interfaces, currently shaping the MagentaZuhause app at Deutsche Telekom. He blends front-end engineering with accessibility expertise—contributing to projects like ally.js—and solves tricky browser interoperability problems, for example improving viewport unit behavior in Mobile Safari. Comfortable across the stack from CI/CD and cloud services to pixel-perfect UIs, he has led teams and freelance ventures while keeping hands-on with code. Based in Waldshut, Germany, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a long-term curiosity for edge-case browser behavior and inclusive design.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Abitur, Abitur at Hohentwiel-Gewerbeschule Singen-, Information Engineering, -, -, Information Engineering, - at Universität Konstanz
German, English
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Github Skills (29)
accessibility10
javascript10
jquery10
css10
user-interface10
web-components10
php10
context-menu10
html10
mysql9
multidimensional-arrays9
regex9
ui-design9
sass9
front-end-development9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
rodneyrehm/viewport-units-buggyfill
Jan 2014 - Jul 2017
Making viewport units (vh|vw|vmin|vmax) work properly in Mobile Safari.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 119 commits, 21 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Rodney primarily contributed to the `viewport-units-buggyfill` project, focused on making viewport units function correctly in Mobile Safari. Their work involved implementing project meta information, fixing JSHint errors, and addressing issues related to regular expression handling within the JavaScript code. The contributions included optimizing the generated CSS, adding browser sniffing, and fixing various bugs to improve the functionality and reliability of the library. This work was crucial for ensuring the accurate rendering of viewport units in mobile browsers.
safariviewport-unitsvminreact-nativemobile-safari
medialize/ally.js
Oct 2014 - Jan 2017
JavaScript library to help modern web applications with accessibility concerns
Role in this project:Front-end Developer & Accessibility Specialist
Front-end Developer & Accessibility SpecialistContributions:26 releases, 1306 commits, 73 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Rodney made significant contributions to the ally.js library, focusing on improving its accessibility features for web applications. Their commits involved adding test cases and addressing browser bugs related to focus navigation and accessibility, particularly within ShadowDOM. They implemented and refined methods to address specific issues like ensuring proper focus order, handling elements in browsing contexts, and improving the interaction of SVG content with accessibility standards.
javascript-libraryweb-applicationsjavascripta11ywai-aria
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