Matt Oates

Are you experiencing JavaScript fatigue? It feels like there's new libraries every day, and so many choices to make when starting on a project. Should I use react.js, vue, a templating engine, or something else? Should I use a framework like Meteor, Angular, or Ember? Common.js / AMD / requirejs? Webpack / grunt / gulp / broccoli? NPM or Bower? How do I do complex 3d graphics or slick animations? What the heck is Yarn anyway? Things are changing fast. Very fast. Fortunately, this is mostly a good thing. I'll help you navigate and simplify the sometimes overwhelming complexity of the JavaScript ecosystem. My experience with writing graphically intensive VR web apps, realtime board games, traditional CRUD apps, as well as high throughput node.js services has given me the ability to translate complex needs into optimal software approaches given the current and future state of the industry. With an airtight understanding of the inner workings of JavaScript such as the event loop, promises + async, V8's performance characteristics, and intricacies of the web browser's DOM we'll be able to move forward with great confidence.

Relying on my deep knowledge of JavaScript, we'll be able to develop and improve distributed node.js services interfacing with multiple data stores and complex caching behavior. Having used GraphQL over HTTP, Rest, and Websockets with a lightweight protocol inspired by Meteor's DDP, we'll be able to choose the right transport layer and protocol for your API needs. If performance is a concern, we can rely on JS optimized for the V8 engine, or even native code modules which will run hot operations in your language of choice.

I've gotten offers from Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Mulesoft, and other tech companies throughout Silicon Valley. I've worked with many engineers to help them find the jobs they want as well.