Freelance senior coder for hire, specialising in full-stack Node.js. Launched ReactQL, a universal, full-stack React + GraphQL Node.js framework. Designed full-stack architecture for Naberly, a US realtor platform acquired by Fathom Holdings (Nasdaq: FTHM) in March 2021.

CTO/Senior Engineer For Hire

Led the Vector Enterprise team - 15 engineers building Datadog&#x27;s observability pipeline (Nasdaq: DDOG).

Engineering Manager

Go, Rust - Senior engineer for Vector - 2.5+ years. Founding Vector team (first 5). Acquired by Datadog, Inc. (Nasdaq: DDOG) in February 2021.

Senior Engineer

Digital publishing company with 150+ products. Built bespoke order fulfilment, digital delivery, e-commerce, affiliate software, powering $4M/yr in sales. Created software that managed 16,000+ affiliates and over $1M/yr in commissions in Ruby + Node.js. Work directly contributed to exit to Canadian company.

Turn-key e-commerce / payment processing / affiliate software. Built real-time payment processing gateway and affiliate marketing software in PHP. 25,000+ affiliates under management. Sold company and IP to UK firm.

Managing Director

I'm the author of ReactQL (https://reactql.org), a starter kit that uses React, Redux, GraphQL, Webpack, PostCSS, LESS to build full-stack, universal/isomorphic Javascript apps.

JS is my bread and butter. I've programmed in it since the late 90s, way before Node.js,  before Prototype and Backbone, before V8 and before Node.js made it possible to build serious apps on the server-side.

Check out my Github code at https://reactql.org -> View Source to see my work.

I have strong experience with HTML and the DOM, and build HTML5, standards-compliant pages, etc. However, these days I rarely touch the DOM; everything is React.js.

I've had a ton of experience working with front-end developers and using SASS, and have built that experience into my ReactQL starter kit.

I have a ton of experience targeting AWS for solid deployments.

Experience includes: Writing Dockerfiles (and Docker Compose), orchestrating multiple containers, working with CentOS and CoreOS as a Docker host environment, running MySQL/PostgreSQL via RDS, setting up ELB load balancers and health checks, building HTTP/2 Nginx servers that proxy to Node.js back-ends, running private Route53 DNS zones and more.

Writing server-side Node.js apps requires strong familiarity with the terminal - I know my way around Linux (most distros, but specifically CoreOS and CentOS)

I've written server-side Javascript apps since Node.js was first released in 2009.

Nowdays, I exclusively use ES6/ES2017, with all the latest syntax enhancements - `const` and `let` statements, fat-arrow functions, rest/spread parameters, generators, import/export modules, async/await, 

I'm the author of https://reactql.org, a starter kit that uses React.js + GraphQL (via Apollo) + one of the most extensive Webpack configurations you'll see from any project on the planet. Check out my code and you'll quickly see where my skills are.

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