Robert Wahler
Owner at GearheadForHire, LLC
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Wahler is a multidisciplinary technology founder and software leader based in Atlanta with 16 years of experience delivering turnkey engineering and software solutions. He runs GearheadForHire, LLC (founded 1999) and Wahler Digital LLC, and serves as technology lead at Salty Dog Digital, blending engineering rigor with hands-on software delivery for clients across finance, media, non-profits, and energy. A Georgia Tech Mechanical Engineering graduate and a former US Navy nuclear power plant operator, he brings disciplined project management and systems thinking to complex distributed development programs. In addition to client work, he is an indie game developer, releasing fourtex zen with Salty Dog Digital, and aims to ship practical, engaging software in his off hours. He is an active open-source contributor, notably enhancing Moai SDK's Android locale handling, improving Aruba test automation, and refining Rails annotation tooling. Based in Atlanta, he has worked with one of the country’s largest EMCs and continues to lead innovative projects across consulting, product, and game development.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical Engineering, Graduated with Honors, 1989, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical Engineering, Graduated with Honors, 1989 at Georgia Tech
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Github Skills (32)
git10
ruby-rails10
mobile-development10
cucumber10
rspec10
rails10
android-development10
ruby10
tdd10
bdd10
activerecord10
rails510
rubygems9
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ctran/annotate_models
May 2010 - Jun 2011
Annotate Rails classes with schema and routes info
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the `annotate_models` project, which aims to annotate Rails classes with schema and routes information. Their work involved refining the annotation process, addressing issues related to displaying column limits for integer and boolean types, and resolving merging conflicts. The user also focused on improvements to the annotation tasks and route annotations, and addressing whitespace formatting.
railsannotaterubyroutesactiverecord
cucumber/aruba
Mar 2010 - Nov 2011
Test command-line applications with Cucumber-Ruby, RSpec or Minitest.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:11 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Robert focused on enhancing the testing capabilities of the `aruba` project, a tool for testing command-line applications. Their contributions included adding new test steps like "I should see matching" with regular expression support. They also implemented RSpec configurations and added test coverage for the `@announce_stdout` tag, ensuring the project's functionality is thoroughly validated. These changes improved the reliability and maintainability of the testing framework.
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