Matt Goldspink

I was the lead developer on the iOS application for a leading bank and the lead mobile engineer for a startup in San Francisco. I have written large 100% native apps and also large hybrid apps using PhoneGap/Cordova.

I have worked on many large MV* style JavaScript applications in banks and also startups. I have spoken at conferences, most recently Senchacon 2013, where I spoke about how to write clean and maintainable JavaScript. I have used many libraries from jQuery to Angular. I have a lot of in-depth knowledge of D3.js for complex data visualisations, Sencha products, both Touch and Ext.JS (3, 4 & 5), and AngularJS (1.3) . In addition I have also written and given training courses in many web technologies including Sencha & AngularJS. Helping students from all kinds of technical backgrounds understand core concepts in JavaScript and map their knowledge of other languages and frameworks into something that makes sense to them and helps them grasp JavaScript.

I have written many Node.JS applications of varying sizes and complexity and have used many frameworks, including Express. I also have a lot of experience with Grunt.JS having ported several Ant based build systems over to Grunt.

I have been developing websites using HTML and CSS for many years. I am very familiar with using semantic HTML and many CSS techniques, like OOCSS and how to use tools like Compass/SASS to simplify and make it more manageable. One of my roles in the past was to help produce a firmwide theme for a large global bank that all other web developers would use. I have also worked on many applications that required complex CSS3 animations and transitions.

I was a member of the Java infrastructure team in a large bank writing libraries for other developers to use, and integrating frameworks like Spring, Hibernate, Apache CXF and others into the firms environment. In addition I consulted and developed many projects with teams across the firm. I am now a full time educator, teaching all levels of Java and various frameworks to developers globally

I am a regular user of Git during my day to day development. I've used Github and Bitbucket heavily and even had to sit through transition periods of SVN to Git using git-svn. I also worked at a company which (at the time) had the largest Perforce install, so have a solid understanding of client specs, and managing large scale projects in Perforce.