Trent Willis
Staff Software Engineer at Netflix
Saint Petersburg, Florida, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolTrent Willis is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience, currently building scalable UI at Netflix from his base in Saint Petersburg, Florida. He blends deep front-end expertise in Ember and testing frameworks with a pragmatic focus on developer experience, having contributed notable improvements to Ember.js, ember-cli, and the QUnit test runner. Colleagues describe him as empathetic and collaborative; he pairs that mindset with a love of robust test suites and tooling that prevents bugs before they reach users. His open-source work shows a pattern of tackling integration points—FastBoot, engines, and CLI build systems—so teams ship ambitious client-side features reliably. A self-confessed music junkie, he brings the same attention to rhythm and structure to code and tests, often improving test ordering and infrastructure to make developer workflows smoother. He graduated from the University of Florida with a B.S. in Digital Arts & Sciences, graduating with honors.
13 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Digital Arts & Sciences, 3.91, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Digital Arts & Sciences, 3.91 at University of Florida
Stackoverflow
671reputation
47kreached
27answers
0questions
Github Skills (28)
url-routing10
javascript10
testing10
css10
cdn10
ember-cli10
test-framework10
regular-expression10
javascript-framework10
emberjs10
qunit10
front-end-development10
ember10
test-automation10
configuration-management9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
qunitjs/qunit
Dec 2015 - May 2020
🔮 An easy-to-use JavaScript unit testing framework.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Front-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:22 releases, 198 commits, 243 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Trent implemented new functionality to filter QUnit tests using regular expressions, enhancing the framework's testing capabilities. They added features to filter tests by regular expressions and case-insensitive matches. Additionally, they incorporated the ability to run tests in a pseudo-random order and also implemented module before/after hooks to the framework. Their contributions included modifying existing files and creating new test files to facilitate these changes and ensure their correct function.
javascriptunit-testing-frameworkqunittesting
ember-engines/ember-engines
Apr 2016 - Oct 2017
Composable Ember applications for ambitious user experiences
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 50 commits, 105 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Trent primarily worked on improving the Ember Engines framework. They addressed deprecation warnings by refactoring code and updated the resolver and configuration loading for FastBoot. The contributions include improvements to component exports and added testing for FastBoot integration. They also fixed linting tests and implemented build system improvements.
emberember-enginesember-cli
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.