Wayne Rowcliffe
Head Of Software Engineering at Priority5
Saint Ansgar, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWayne Rowcliffe is a pragmatic Head of Software Engineering with 14 years of experience specializing in stabilizing, maturing, and optimizing production systems rather than chasing greenfield work. He leads a lean engineering organization at Priority5 focused on keeping customers happy and expanding into new market segments, with a hands-on approach to performance fixes, refactors, and pragmatic tooling. Wayne’s open-source contributions include substantive backend refactors and unit tests to the high-profile neovim project, demonstrating care for memory optimization and code structure. Based in rural Iowa and only considering fully remote roles, he blends small‑town steadiness with a systems-minded engineering craft honed since earning a Computer Software Engineering degree from Iowa State.
14 years of coding experience
Osage High SchoolBachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Iowa State University
Github Skills (6)
c1710
neovim10
c1110
lua9
api8
testing7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
neovim/neovim
Sep 2015 - Nov 2015
Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 10 PRs, 39 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Wayne's contributions primarily focused on refactoring and improving the Neovim codebase. They made changes to statically allocate buffers, optimize memory usage, and enhance the structure of the code, specifically in relation to expanding filenames, handling help tags, and managing temporary directories. Moreover, the user's commits included implementing unit tests for crucial functions.
usabilityapiluavimvim-plugin
war1025/GCalcSearch
Jan 2012 - Dec 2012
Advanced Calculator Gnome Shell Extension
Contributions:15 commits in 11 months
gnome-shell-extensiongnomegnome-shellcalculatorgtk
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