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Matthew Keas
Web Developer
Matthew is an enthusiastic student of computer science, distributed computing, compiler theory, computer security, self-configured Linux systems, and functi...onal theory. Recent projects involve cross-cloud and private-cloud architecture, configuring multiple Kubernetes clusters, Rancher cluster manager, Longhorn distributed block-storage management, Apache Kafka, and IoT edge-computing.
Wenham Dorsett
Web Developer
Since 2006, Wenham has been making a living as a web and software developer—mainly working with C# and .NET but he's also proficient in HTML5, CSS, JavaScri...pt, jQuery, and Ajax. He's experienced in both front- and back-end development and has developed solutions usually hosted on Microsoft Azure and other cloud architectures. Although Wenham typically works with cloud architectures, he's also developed with on-premise architectures.
Sean Desmond
Web Developer
Sean is a top software engineer with a passion for exceptional design and a proven ability to build effective, scalable, multi-tiered solutions. He has over... ten years of software development and architecture experience, and has worked a variety of roles, from individual developer to tech/team lead.
Jelena Drobnjakovic
Web Developer
Jelena has been actively working as a front-end developer for about eight years. Her job includes daily usage of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Angular/Vue, jQuery,... Laravel, and Git. She loves creating beautiful web pages that are optimized and working smoothly on all devices. Besides programming, she has also overseen the organization of work for some projects, which she loves doing. Communication between colleagues is key to building good applications.
Johnathan Hebert
Web Developer
Johnathan has 15 years of experience writing web apps that span consumer productivity software to mission critical financial trading platforms. He has exten...sive knowledge of front-end JavaScript and browser APIs as well as significant experience with popular frameworks and libraries like React and Redux. His deep full-stack experience includes Node.js and Express, MongoDB as well as more traditional technologies like PHP, ASP.NET, and MySQL
Wes Dean
Web Developer
Wes is a freelance web developer and general IT enthusiast. He focuses on small- and medium-sized businesses that are looking for ways to utilize technology... and the accessibility of the internet to grow their business, improve their workflow procedures, and better their customer interactions.
Stéphane P. Péricat
Web Developer
Stéphane is a front-end engineer with over 10 years' experience who specializes in building performant and scalable JavaScript-based web applications. He en...joys working in a team of talented developers, sharing his experience and knowledge with others, and learning new technologies.
Harrison Strowd
Web Developer
Harrison has extensive experience building and maintaining web server applications of all shapes and sizes. The majority of his experience is in Ruby on Rai...ls, but he also has experience with many other languages as well. Harrison has a strong understanding of the entire stack of server-side technologies.
Dan Nixon
Web Developer
From startups to Fortune 500 companies, Dan has worked in a broad range of environments, industries, and technologies, constantly striving to dissolve the l...ine between IT and business to create solutions with true value to the bottom line. His technical background includes extensive experience in web development in the MEAN stack and on Microsoft platforms and technologies including MVC, C#.NET, SQL Server, and Web API.
Leo Thorp
Web Developer
Leo is an experienced engineer with exceptional skills throughout the full stack. Effective on teams of any size or alone, his work has included React SPAs... for a major media publisher, full-stack architecture of a complex healthcare product in C#, and multiplayer games in Node. He takes pride in writing high-quality code, having a product-focused mindset, and finishing ahead of schedule.
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Nearly all computer applications rely on one of two principal message standards: JSON and XML. Today, JSON is the most widely used format, having overtaken XML within the last 5 years, but is JSON better than XML? In part 1 of this multi-part series on JSON vs. XML, Toptal Freelance Full-stack Developer Seva Safris will take a closer look at the history of the web to uncover the original purpose of XML and JSON, and analyze the software trends in recent years that lead to JSON becoming more popular than XML.
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