Life.io is the world’s first web-based platform specifically designed to help Life Insurance Carriers enable their policy holders to make better decisions every moment, to take care of themselves more, to engage more, to simply live more. 

Sr Front End Developer

Working as a software engineer on the MapMyFitness applications as part of the Under Armour Connected fitness division. Working as a front-end engineer with Angular.js and React.js

Software Engineer

Worked as software engineer on service integrations and the expansion of the product api. Worked full-stack with a Ruby on Rails backend and a Backbone.js frontend.

Worked as a software engineer to implement internal tooling, such as application tools, billing and invoicing software, and analytics. Worked full stack with a Ruby on Rails backend and a React.js frontend.

Working in consulting as a software engineer on a wide range of products, applications, and services. Coding in a variety of languages, as well as assisting with operations at the company. Worked full stack in Ruby and Rails, using raw JavaScript on the front end.

I've been building Single Page Applications for clients over the past 5 years.  I've used Backbone, Knockout, Ember, Angular, React, and build SPA Frameworks myself.  I've worked full stack, doing Node.js development, writing ORMs, and full blown Express applications.  

I've recently started using Clojure professionally, taking it from a hobby tool to a power tool.  There's a lot to learn in Clojure, and I love teaching people about all of it's new and exciting concepts: Functional Programming, Immutable Data, Transducers, Generative Testing, Specs, and so much more.

I've been using vim as my primary editor for many years now, and have done so because I'm insanely productive in it.  It's a very lightweight editor with some mind-bendingly powerful principles.  I don't think anyone can ever rate themselves 10/10 when it comes to vim, since you never really stop learning, but I'd like to think I'm pretty darn close! ;)

Ever since I ventured out of C++ land and learned scripting/dynamic languages, I've felt increasingly empowered by learning functional programming.  Functional programming goes far beyond passing functions, and gives you the tools to make guarantees about your code, so it can stay concise, legible, and most importantly, bug free.

I've been using React since it was released, and have been using it every day since.  I've read through and contributed to the core code, followed along with the latest trends, and used a wide variety of different libraries.

I've been using TMUX since I started using vi, and have found ways to augment any developers terminal expirience with a very minimal usage of TMUX

I've built a number of webpack build flows for a wide range of applications, including custom loaders, webpack plugins, and development servers.

ClojureScript is my go to technology for algorithm training, front end development, and system scripts.  With the developer experience of Clojure, and the distribution experience of JavaScript, you really get the 'best of both worlds'. 

I've been using Redux since ReactEurope 2015, where I've gone on to make everything from small, quick prototypes to large, performant, enterprise grade applications.

I've combed through every line of the reagent source code, and contribute often to Reanimated, the animation library for Reagent.  

I worked on some GraphQL APIs when it was initially launched, and built a Clojure parser for GraphQL syntax as part of my self-education. I'm familiar with it's recent developments and it's syntax.

I've created, migrated between, and plugged into several CMS systems over my tenure as a front-end expert

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