James Womack

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ABOUT ME

Passionate Node.js, React & iOS architect at Netflix, Sony & beyond. Love design. music & code.

Primary areas of expertise

The internals of Objective-C + Swift and best practices of iOS & OS X dev. I've been publishing apps for companies such as Sony & Netflix since 2008
Developing and delivering websites using Node.js at scale. I've published many modules to NPM since 2011
Improving team processes to increase developer happiness & efficiency. I'm an expert in pairing with programmers to get them where they need to be

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

Joined January 2015

EXPERTISE

Node.js

7 years experience

I've been writing production Node.js apps since 2011. I'm currently the resident Node.js expert in Netflix's Data Engineering and Analysi...

I've been writing production Node.js apps since 2011. I'm currently the resident Node.js expert in Netflix's Data Engineering and Analysis group. I regularly meet with members of NPM Inc. and the core Node.js team.

Express.js Async.js Restify Bunyan npm React Nodemon Mocha Chai Underscore.js Lodash DTraceEvent emitterStreams

iOS

10 years experience

I've been an iOS programmer since it was called iPhone OS in 2008. I hacked on the iPhone 1 before the SDK came out. I've been releasing ...

I've been an iOS programmer since it was called iPhone OS in 2008. I hacked on the iPhone 1 before the SDK came out. I've been releasing high-quality iOS apps since the store opened and have written apps for Sony & Netflix among other companies. I've published plenty of iOS code via Github, Cocoapods & Bitbucket.

Xcode 6 Reactivecocoa Swift

Xcode 6 Reactivecocoa Swift Afnetworking React NativeJscontextXcodeAlcatrazCocoaPods DTrace Objective-C

Git

10 years experience

Unsure of the correct branching strategy? Unfamiliar with fixup vs. squash? Having problems resolving conflicts? Don't know when to rebas...

Unsure of the correct branching strategy? Unfamiliar with fixup vs. squash? Having problems resolving conflicts? Don't know when to rebase or cherry pick? Let me help.

Branching Rebase Rebasing

Branching Rebase Rebasing Cherry pick Tagging Checkout

HTML/CSS

21 years experience

I've been creating websites using HTML since 1998. I've spent over half my life dedicated to creating for the web I'm one of the rare pro...

I've been creating websites using HTML since 1998. I've spent over half my life dedicated to creating for the web I'm one of the rare programmers who is equally adept at architecting software and designing the user interface, including utilizing my CSS expertise. Let's make something beautiful for the web!

Stylus LESS HTML5

Stylus LESS HTML5 CSS3 CSS Animation HTML/CSS HTML CSS Matrices

JavaScript

20 years experience

I not only use JavaScript everyday, I love it. None of the so-called pitfalls of JS are pitfalls to me—they're just another part of this ...

I not only use JavaScript everyday, I love it. None of the so-called pitfalls of JS are pitfalls to me—they're just another part of this little language that I understand and love. Variable hoisting, server-side/client-side, implicit type conversion, prototypical inheritance, ES3, ES5, ES6 and beyond... ...let me help you navigate the waters to JavaScript awesomeness!

Es6 Vanilla JS Express.js

Es6 Vanilla JS Express.js React jQuery Superagent Request Templating Grunt DOM MVC CouchDB Backbone.js Node.js Redux JSX Restify Handlebars.js JavaScript

React

5 years experience

I use React in concert with Redux to create applications that serve billions of records of data via Druid. I most love using React's pure...

I use React in concert with Redux to create applications that serve billions of records of data via Druid. I most love using React's pure functional component interface to express interfaces as pure functions.

Flux React Router Redux

Flux React Router Redux JavaScript

AWS (Amazon Web Services)

8 years experience

Netflix

Spinnaker Elastic Load Balancer