Over the course of my career, I've worked on a wide range of front-end JavaScript projects. I've built business tools, live-coding environments, games, e-commerce front-ends, and more. I've been teaching in-person JavaScript workshops for the past 4 years.

Most of the projects I've worked on in the last 5 years have involved Node in some way. I've written many RESTful APIs in Node, a large GraphQL API, and several real-time services using websockets. As well as writing node, I know how to profile, optimise, and cache Node services to help them run as fast and reliably as possible. I mentor at Node Girls here in London - a workshop every few months women and non-binary people about Node.js.

React (+ family) seem like a huge step forward in the world of web dev, but the learning curve for beginners (particularly around React's subtle gotchas) is steep. I've used React in a bunch of projects over the last few years and learnt a lot of those lessons the hard way. I've worked extensively with Relay.JS and GraphQL, and have architected a light-weight, high-performance e-commerce frontend with React and Redux.

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Alex D.

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Technical skills