Doing Svelte development within the Apple Media Products division. Played an important role in the recently announced "Apple Music Sing" feature, where you can turn down the vocals and sing along to Apple Music.

Returning to Google with big ideas about how to improve their Cloud Console frontend stack! Wish me luck.

Joining the Weblab team (Amazon's A/B testing framework), I had an amazing opportunity to drag their frontend into the modern age. Moved over to a build system using ES Modules, NPM packages and Webpack, so that the front-end has a proper dependency graph. React for view rendering. Node for the the server side of the the frontend. Thanks to isomorphic multipage React, pages render faster, and with speed that remains constant even as the number of pages grows.

Boomeranged back after 8 years! Like a bad penny.Amazon Stores, those brand microsites you see such as https://www.amazon.com/lego or https://amazon.com/oxo or (as of just recently) https://www.amazon.com/apple. I built the "Interactive Image" where you have spots you can mouse over to get ASIN information flyouts, like the upper right box here with the sweatshirts: amazon.com/champion And built the brand directory at amazon.com/brands

We have a monolith serving both API and HTML, and what I'm doing here at OfferUp is teasing that behemoth apart, with an all-new service dedicated to HTML that calls our APIs. The monolith is in Django, the new service is Node/React.I'm going way beyond my job description here, but somebody has to do it. I'd rather be crafting microinteractions and pixel polishing UI implementation, but instead I'm often doing service owner stuff like making sure our EC2 cluster is healthy. I'd never even logged into AWS before this job, now I'm pretty comfortable with multiple AWS products.First phase of the new web experience rolls out by end of Q1, look for it at offerup.com in a desktop or mobile browser.

Coming into this role, I'd used Angular but not React, so I had to ramp up quick on isomorphic React/Redux on Node/Express. Sorry (especially to former Google coworkers like Jen Bourey) but having used them both I definitely prefer React. I know they aren't quite the same, React does less than Angular, but for the simple task of dumping data into templates this stack shines.

Sharing economy meets third party logistics, i.e. warehouse space. #b2b #airbnbforwarehousesRails/Postgres web stack, which is mostly what I worked on, plus a little Android development. Things I first used here (and liked): FontAwesome, Bootstrap, Adobe XD. Things I first used here and hated (but convinced the team to abandon): HAML. Things I first used here and hated but couldn't do anything about: Github for code reviews, CoffeeScript.

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In the cloud org, working on the unified developer console (https://console.developers.google.com/).

I'm on the DFP (Doubleclick for Publishers) team. That's the in-house Google product at google.com/dfp, not the acquired product at google.com/doubleclick/publishers/dart.html. It's a bit confusing. The product I work on is intended to replace the one we acquired.I primarily do GWT development, which is the Google Web Toolkit. While I'm not a fan of transforming Java to JavaScript, I will say that you can't just have a bunch of unstructured JavaScript and expect a project of any size to work. So GWT gives you structure and patterns and a basic skeleton to hang client-side code on. Plus lots of other benefits like i18n and CSS class obfuscation and server-side testability of code, if testing is something you're into.

When I'm not writing JavaScript or Perl Mason or Python or Ruby or CSS, I can usually be found listening to my deskside turntable, or up on the 40th floor of the Columbia Center, at Starbucks, trying to order bizarre things like a "Double Tall Happy Meal" or a "Nonfat Alligator Machiatto (two pumps of alligator)".Some things I wrote or had a significant hand in developing:Greasemonkey scriptsPopover (DIV overlay) library, used across all of Amazon.com (with alpha PNGs even in IE6)Throttling proxy server written in Twisted PythonMany JavaScript components, including drag and drop table columns, image magnifier, slideshow, slider controls, ajax form postingPrototyped all sorts of concepts using JavaScript and RailsMac geekery such as a Phone Tool dashboard widget and contributions to the Amazon TextMate bundle

The usual ASPX, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XSLT kinda stuff, plus more recently, Ruby on Rails. I came into this role with expert level knowledge of the front-end aspects of .NET, i.e. getting web controls to play nice with web standards, as well as world-class CSS skills. I mean I'm one of the first official entries in the CSS Zen Garden for god's sakes. One important thing I think I've learned here is JavaScript. So many web devs (myself included) assume they basically know it already because they studied computer science and they already know C++ and Java, but that's just not the case. It's a really powerful and interesting language, but you have to actually spend some time to learn it. If someone claims to know JavaScript just ask them how variable scoping works... it's nothing like C and if they don't know they haven't learned JavaScript yet.

ASP.NET, SQL Server, AJAX. Kelly Smith is a righteous dude, but the company just wasn't a good fit for me. I wrote their Frame Shop, an interactive feature for choosing print size, frame, and matting. It was a lot of fun because it involved server-side image compositing (to scale) as well as ajax. It's served as a good demo in various job interviews.

ASP.NET, Tessitura, left to pursue a career in ballet.

ASP.NET, CSS, JavaScript. Yet another place I've worked in Pioneer Square. I wonder what Paul Hanson is up to?

ASP.NET. This is where I learned ASP.NET, thanks to Kevin Mayer for giving me the opportunity to jump into a brand new (to me) technology. I also discovered that working from home sucks, it's lonely and depressing, so I moved on. I also did some "web production" work, i.e. "here's a Word doc and Photoshop comp, make it a webpage." That kind of work would have been so much easier if I'd had MangleBracket back then. That's right, MangleBracket. Check it out at manglebracket.com.

PHP, MySQL. This was my "pre .net" web development phase, when I hated Microsoft and would only use open source. I still hate Microsoft of course, but ASP.NET ain't so bad. All I really remember about this summer job was that I made $12 an hour, and the boss drove a cool black Lexus IS-300 and his brother smoked a lot of weed.

C++, DirectX, Visual Studio 6. This is where I learned to program, straight up. Pat Wilkinson was the shit. Harley too, he bought me a skateboard when I was working on Skateboard Park Tycoon. If you go out and buy a copy of "Snowboard Park Tycoon," it has my voice in there as one of the characters, and Mac named one of the tricks after me. He called it the "Dirty Simons." Once I get my Mac bootcamped I can play all those old games again, for old times sake.