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I grew up and live in British Columbia, Canada, where I've been a freelancer working on all kinds of projects for many years. I have also worked professionally as a software designer and front-end developer. I have an M.A., so I am fully capable of clear communication and I am very organized. I am a fast worker once we have the requirements set out.

I'm a geek and an entrepreneur that takes pride in solving tasks elegantly within set limitations. I have had my own share of achievements and challenges with my own businesses and projects in my 15+ years as a developer. I love working with others and sharing and expanding my knowledge, which is why I'm excited to share my expertise as a mentor, colleague or consultant on your project. /**  * Technologies I work with but not limited to.  * @return a well-equipped toolbox  */ ⦾ PHP (all versions), expert level (I write PSR-2 style) ⦾ JavaScript in multiple flavors (ES6, TypeScript, CoffeeScript, etc), expert level ⦾ In varying degrees: Go, Python, Java, Elm, Elixir. I can switch between languages and language styles, and explicitly make use of design patterns ⦾ Frameworks that I use but am not limited to: Laravel; Vue.js, Angular 1+2, and Knockout.js. I quickly adapt to a new framework as I am able to quickly grasp the key concepts and I usually go directly to reading the code. ⦾ Databases and servers locally and in the cloud. I've done a lot of DevOps with AWS, Digital Ocean, etc. Tools: Ansible, Terraform, Consul, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc. ⦾ I predominantly use Linux-based environments and I am an avid Vim user. I contribute to the open-source community (publish and make PRs) and in general, I'm visible on developer communities on Slack, Gitter, Stack Overflow, etc. I mastered in dynamic and open narratives in multi-player/agent games—a subject I still find use for in other work in terms of first order logic, automatons, and the formalization of information knowledge. I've worked remotely for over 8 years now and I’m well aware of the challenges and advantages of not being in the same office or time zone as that of my clients. The key points are clarity of communication and that the distance forces you to explicitly think through what your goals and requirements are. /**  * Why you should work with me.  * @return high-quality delivery  */ ⦾ I write elegant and efficient code. I believe in concise and readable code over documentation. ⦾ I take pride in delivering solid work and I naturally develop a sense of ownership. Thus, when your project succeeds, it will be a success for me as well. ⦾ I am honest about expectations. Software estimates are hard. Several smaller deliveries are better than a monstrous rollout that might never take place due to lack of funds or lost opportunity. ⦾ I am currently based in Manila, Philippines (GMT +8) but I can easily adapt my schedule to yours and come up with a suitable working arrangement with you as my client. /**  * Other Projects and Interests  * @return diversity  */ Within the past five years, I have started several businesses and projects: Places, a successful vegetarian restaurant and hub for travelers and locals in Kathmandu, Nepal; Four Red Doors, a Scandinavian-style apartment hotel for long-term guests and visitors to Kathmandu; Tiny Carrier (work-in-progress), a crowd-sourced travel and transport startup; and Helter Shelter, an earthquake relief platform focusing on providing temporary shelter for the victims of the 2015 Nepal earthquakes. At the moment I’m working on a social network for dogs written in Elm—largely inspired by my pet dachshund Loki and his online Instagram friends and fans. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mblarsen https://signup.tinycarrier.com

Full Stack developer with over 10 years of experience in both Java & Javascript. Mobile projects using Cordova (especially the ionic framework) make me tick. I love working on small projects to enterprise applications

Co-founder of Code Branch, where we coach students and entrepreneurs.

Greetings! I work as a professional mentor as a web dev bootcamp in Vancouver, BC called Lighthouse Labs, where I teach students about programming, web development, problem solving, UX/UI and anything else they need help with, one-on-one, in groups, and remotely. I also conduct practice tech interviews with the students - ensuring they are prepared for the kind of questions and format they might expect from a real tech interview, perform code and UX/UI reviews, evaluate projects and actively contribute to the curriculum. I've received praise from students, instructors, administrative staff and fellow mentors for my friendly and helpful demeanour, patience with students of all levels, ability to break concepts down to a level as basic as an individual student needs, tendency to commiserate with and relate to their struggles and frustrations, thoughtful and comprehensive feedback on code reviews and tech interviews, willingness to go above and beyond to help students, often staying late to ensure everybody has been taken care of and coming in on my off days or mentoring remotely when the mentors are understaffed, and of course for my knowledge and skill - particularly in UX/UI and front end design and development (HTML5, CSS3, SASS, jQuery, AJAX), Javascript (client and server-side with Node and Express), Ruby/Rails, full-scale project design (data modelling, information architecture etc), and conceptual explanations/examples. I have experience with a variety of other languages/platforms/frameworks - Objective-C/iOS development, Java, C++, some PHP, SQL, Angular.js, Bootstrap, Foundation - as well as OOP, imperative and functional programming, and concepts like recursion, complexity, algorithm design, closures, callbacks, and other concepts that regularly stump students. On my to learn/improve on list are React/Redux, Swift, Scala, Python, ES2016+ additions like async/await, and ever-strengthening my existing skills and improving my knowledge, and further developing my expertise in UX/UI design and pushing the boundaries of frontend development as far as I can.

World traveler, music geek and creative coder. I'm a full stack developer with emphasis in front end technologies Currently working in a machine learning project. I also like to combine art projects with technology :)

Having covered a wide diversity of problems I can help you to go far with VueJS, AngularJS, Meteor or nodeJS. I'm currently involved in fullstack and mobile projects. Some of them Ionic-based. My favorite thing? JavaScript. Cool unusual languages? Smalltalk. Also doing html5 Single Page Applications. I even made a framework to get really productive: http://github.com/flow-stack/flow. I've implemented http://airflowing.com using Seaside as foundation and my own framework on top of it. It's horizontally scalable and its object database is ACID compliant. Airflowing was a SaaS for service companies. I have a strong bias towards designing User Experiences that makes sense, Design Thinking and fast prototyping. I advise and develop in different startups. My day to day work is to help in remote teams on different projects. I can use a lots of hats, we can talk business, Customer Development, investing, SaaS as much as front-end and back-end technicalities.

"Whoever travels without a guide needs 200 years for a two-day journey." Whether you're just starting out on the journey to becoming a great coder, or whether you're somewhere in the middle and you just got stuck, don't let it hold you back longer than necessary. I have over 8 years of experience with multiple software stacks. I started on Java with Spring Framework, then switched to Ruby on Rails. These days I work mostly with Node.js and CoffeeScript. I've worked with 4-person startups, billion dollar companies and everything in between. My goal is to get your issue resolved as quickly as possible, and give you all the tools and knowledge necessary to *understand* why you had this issue, and how to prevent it going forward.