Full stack javascript with a focus on backend. In addition to writing nodejs server code, I managed a lot of Google Cloud infrastructure, wrote deployment scripts, and did some data analysis with BigQuery.

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Taught the Advanced JavaScript course, which is a course for code school grads as well as experienced developers.

I have also taught the Python course for beginners.

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Full stack Javascript development, working on a React Native app for teaching braille.

We used Redux, AWS Lambda, and many other modern technologies. It was a small team, so I wore many hats. Worked on the UI, built some in-app games, data validation, REST endpoints, and more. At one point created a Flask app with Python since we needed a certain library that wasn't available in Node. Whatever it takes to get the job done!

Sole developer on a web app. Worked with designer, QA, and project manager.

This was my first senior-level job, and I was responsible for all of the software development of an entire product. Trial by fire!

The project had some fun technical challenges. Dynamic bar-code image generation, web scraping, payment processing, and more.

I have experience with JavaScript in many contexts: web apps, mobile apps, command line scripts, and even teaching JavaScript classes at boot-camps such as Hack Reactor and PDX Code Guild.

React is the framework I teach my students in the Advanced JavaScript course I teach. I've also used it professionally to build web interfaces as well as native apps using React Native.

One of the things I like to do with students is to show how to build a mini React framework from scratch using smaller libraries. It really helps to demystify the concepts when you see how a React-like framework is made.

Node is my primary language for creating web servers. I've used Node professionally to build out REST web servers, as well as a back-end scripting language for various tasks such as web-scraping and batch payment processing jobs.

I've been building web servers with Express for 5+ years. Usually the servers I build are REST APIs for a single-page-application, though I've also used templating engines to serve static web pages from Express.

Express is the main framework we use in the Advanced Javascript course I teach. Typically I start students out by showing how to build servers with vanilla Node, then we look at how Express makes it much easier.

Have spent a lot of time writing cloudformation to define infrastructure and automate deployments on AWS. At a previous job we did everything "serverless", so I got very familiar with lambda, step functions, dynamodb, SQS, etc.

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Evan H.

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