Trent Grover
Director Of Engineering - Frontend Frameworks at Workiva
Ames, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTrent Grover is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of focused experience driving frontend frameworks and client technologies, currently serving as Director of Engineering – Frontend Frameworks at Workiva. He progressed through architecture and senior engineering roles at Workiva, blending hands-on framework development with strategic team and product leadership. Trent’s technical roots span C++, Python, Dart and modern JavaScript, and he has contributed pragmatic UI fixes to the widely used react-bootstrap project, improving component behavior and React integration. Prior roles as CTO and Chief Scientist reflect a strong background in imaging, graphics and hardware-integrated systems, evidencing an unusual mix of low-level systems and polished web UX expertise. Based in Ames, Iowa, he pairs research-driven problem solving with a history of shipping production frameworks for collaborative enterprise applications.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Iowa State University
Github Skills (9)
javascript10
react-components10
bootstra10
bootstrap10
react10
react-component10
typescripts8
typescript8
typescript-types8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
react-bootstrap/react-bootstrap
Aug 2014 - Jan 2015
Bootstrap components built with React
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Trent primarily focused on improving and maintaining React components within the react-bootstrap library. Their contributions include fixing UI bugs related to input fields, specifically file input borders, and ensuring the correct rendering and behavior of components like SplitButton, TabbedArea, and DropdownButton. Furthermore, the user addressed integration issues by updating code to support React 0.12 and modifying internal utilities. The changes highlight a focus on enhancing the functionality and usability of the existing component library.
reactbuilt-with-reactbootstrap-componentsjavascriptreact-components
trentgrover-wf/deploy-sourcegraph
Oct 2019 - Jan 2022
Deploy Sourcegraph to a Kubernetes cluster for large-scale code search and intelligence
Contributions:2 reviews, 2 PRs, 29 pushes in 2 years 2 months
sourcegraphscalelarge-scalekubernetescode-search
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