I've been writing production Node.js apps since 2011. I'm currently the resident Node.js expert in Netflix's Data Engineering and Analysis group. I regularly meet with members of NPM Inc. and the core Node.js team.

I've been an iOS programmer since it was called iPhone OS in 2008. I hacked on the iPhone 1 before the SDK came out. I've been releasing high-quality iOS apps since the store opened and have written apps for Sony & Netflix among other companies. I've published plenty of iOS code via Github, Cocoapods & Bitbucket.

Unsure of the correct branching strategy? Unfamiliar with fixup vs. squash? Having problems resolving conflicts? Don't know when to rebase or cherry pick? Let me help.

I've been creating websites using HTML since 1998. I've spent over half my life dedicated to creating for the web I'm one of the rare programmers who is equally adept at architecting software and designing the user interface, including utilizing my CSS expertise. Let's make something beautiful for the web!

I not only use JavaScript everyday, I love it. None of the so-called pitfalls of JS are pitfalls to me—they're just another part of this little language that I understand and love. Variable hoisting, server-side/client-side, implicit type conversion, prototypical inheritance, ES3, ES5, ES6 and beyond... 
...let me help you navigate the waters to JavaScript awesomeness!

I use React in concert with Redux to create applications that serve billions of records of data via Druid. I most love using React's pure functional component interface to express interfaces as pure functions.

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James W.

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Technical skills