Benjamin Zuill-Smith

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ABOUT ME

Lead Developer at GDS Storefront Estimating

I am a full stack developer and most enjoy coding as opposed to front-end visual design. I love using JavaScript. I'm also enjoying building Windows Desktop applications.

I dive deep in code and tools to understand them completely. I think it's better when people do that together with kindness and humility toward one another. My goal is to help people turn up the good in software development by helping them learn, jump over some of the learning curves and hurtles that I've experienced, and pass on practices that can help us all enjoy coding a even more.

I've been developing software professionally for 5 years. I have extensive experience with Node.js and related web technologies. I also enjoy discussing software methodologies like Test Driven Development, Pair Progamming, Mob Programming, and more.

English

Pacific Time (US & Canada) (-07:00)

Joined October 2016

EXPERTISE

Node.js

3 years experience

I am a full stack developer using, among other things, javascript with a mongodb backend, and a durandal/angular frontend. I have experie...

I am a full stack developer using, among other things, javascript with a mongodb backend, and a durandal/angular frontend. I have experience with SASS, SCSS, Babel, Express, Gulp, Grunt, Webpack, and more related tools and frameworks. I also built some simple internal company tools using Electron and I maintain open source CAD parser and viewer libraries written in javascript for the web.

Microsoft SQL Server MongoDB Bootstrap Full Stack JavaScript Electron

VB6

3 years experience

One of my primary projects currently is to bring a legacy VB6 application used by thousands of users into the modern age. From this, I kn...

One of my primary projects currently is to bring a legacy VB6 application used by thousands of users into the modern age. From this, I know a lot about migrating VB6 code to .NET, getting software working smoothly with RDS and other Citrix-like systems for small business and enterprise customers. I have excellent knowledge and experience in refactoring, testing, and migrating applications such as this into something more modern. I also know quite a bit about simplifying deployment of legacy applications such as this.

RefactorMigration to .netEnterprise Development

RefactorMigration to .netEnterprise Development Windows Application VB.NET Test driven development ASP.NET VB6 Legacy Code

ASP.NET

3 years experience

I've been rewriting a legacy application in .NET for quite some time now. I've had lots of opportunity to learn and play with WPF and MVV...

I've been rewriting a legacy application in .NET for quite some time now. I've had lots of opportunity to learn and play with WPF and MVVM frameworks like Prism and MVVM light. I'm not a complete expert, but I know what it's like to learn this stuff without a mentor. It can be frustrating at times and I'd love to help people work through it.

Microsoft SQL Server Entity Framework WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation)

Microsoft SQL Server Entity Framework WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation)Prism MVVM .NET Core

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