Elliot Plant

I have been using react since it's beta days in both professional and personal settings. It is an incredible tool for quickly and robustly creating web apps, and its un-opinionated nature makes React perfect for a huge range of project sizes. Debugging React code can be difficult, especially if you don't have a deep grasp of how props and context are passed through the virtual DOM. I specialize in finding ways to improve and debug React projects in a way that helps build them more sturdily for the future.

I have been working with Node applications and building my own since Node v4.0.0. I love how lightweight Node is and how easy it is to start projects, but I recognize how often that can lead to sloppy development practices. I have build projects large and small, and have found that process and habits are critical to make scalable Node projects. Test driven development is central to my design philosophy when it comes to node projects. It doesn't matter if the project is a server or a single use tool, making an easy to use testing suite improves the speed of development in the short and long terms. With TypeScript, Node development has become more fluid and structure is easier to enforce. Finding errors at compilation time or earlier relieves most of the common headaches associated with server side JavaScript. If at all possible, I encourage the use of TypeScript in Node projects.

I have been using JavaScript for years, and have enjoyed watching the language grow into the robust world it has become today. I have a passion for writing clean, well commented code that is structured in a way to make further development seamless. The nuances of JS can be difficult to understand, and I enjoy explaining them and working with them, but I avoid taking advantage of "quirks" just to save a few lines. With the arrival of TypeScript, the way I develop has improved dramatically. Web software finally feels like a first class language, and debugging has become so much easier. I want to help you figure out the best way to use JavaScript and TypeScript to solve your development challenges.

I was the front end lead for an Angular2/4 company for the past two years, where I helped junior developers learn and debug Angular components. I implemented service workers, client side query caching, client http layers, re-usable UI components, unit tests, integration tests, a suite of development tools, and everything else needed to effectively build an Angular2 app. One of the biggest hurdles of Angular is getting used to putting JavaScript in your HTML. Understanding how to minimize the mixture of the view and the controller is critical to fixing Angular issues, and I specialize in finding those issues.

Mongo, like Node, is an incredibly easy way to get started with a project. And like Node, it is critical to use discipline and documentation to scale Mongo projects. I have worked professionally with Mongo projects for two years from the perspective of a front end engineer and a server side engineer. I have dealt with the benefits and drawbacks of indexing, sharding, detailed logging for Mongo. I have had to migrate data models on numerous occasions, and I have navigated the process of changing data models in a production environment. If there's a way for Mongo to break, I have seen it.

HTML and CSS are what got me into programming, and I have been using them on a daily basis for the past 5 years. I've built responsive layouts and mastered the quirks of different browsers. With my understanding of how HTML, CSS, and JavaScript work together, I can help you get rid of strange bugs that pop up when building your sebsites.

I love writing scripts with Python to hack my daily life. It's flexibility and power make it my language of choice for demonstrations and code snippets. Let me help you explore the world of software with Python!