At GitHub I worked on several projects, including Atom and its Git and GitHub integration, Electron, and Primer, the GitHub design system. I was the engineering lead for the dark mode implementation and rollout.

Senior Software Engineer

I've been doing web development for more than a decade, especially specializing in client-side application development with JavaScript. I have the most experience with React, though I have some familiarity with a few other client-side frameworks such as Angular and Vue. I also have plenty of experience with libraries like jQuery.

I also do JavaScript development on the server with Node.js, and have built desktop applications using JavaScript with Electron.

I've been using React for more than five years, utilizing it to build web applications, Chrome extensions, and desktop applications using tools like Electron. I believe React provides one of the most approachable declarative programming models, and the large ecosystem of libraries available for React makes for a great developer experience.

I have more expertise with React than any other client-side JavaScript library. I was the second user on Stack Overflow to gain the gold reactjs badge (http://stackoverflow.com/help/badges/5357/reactjs)

I've been using flux for almost as long as React, and after some early experiments, wrote the very first well-known flux library, Fluxxor, based on the descriptions of the design pattern provided by Facebook. I've since used other data management libraries, the most common one being Redux.

For a while I used Redux almost exclusively for app state management. While it's not my go-to tool of choice, it still is a good implementation of a unidirectional data flow library (very similar in many ways to flux). Redux has a great modular design and the ecosystem around the library is still thriving.

I've been building JavaScript applications on the server using Node.js since version 0.4. I'm also the author of NodeCasts, a short screencast series focusing on Node.js topics. I have several JavaScript packages on the npm repository.

Electron is a way to build desktop applications for Windows, OS X, and Linux using web technologies like HTML and JavaScript. It's used to power the Atom text editor. For a time, I worked on both Atom and Electron at GitHub.

Because it uses JavaScript and web technologies under the hood, most of the other JavaScript expertise also applies to Electron. I also have some specific experience building Electron applications.

JavaScript Aficionado, React/Flux Enthusiast, Author of Fluxxor

Michelle Tilley

Planetary.js is a JavaScript library for building awesome interactive globes. It is based on D3.js and TopoJSON, and has built-in support for zoom, rotation, mouse interaction, and displaying animated "pings" at any coordinate. Via plugins, Planetary.js can be extended to do whatever you want!

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