Publication
Writing Testable Code in JavaScript: A Brief Overview
https://www.toptal.com/developers/javascript/writing-testable-code-in-javascript
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Joshua Mock
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Nashville, TN, United States
Toptal member since January 5, 2016
Bio
Joshua is a front-end architect and web application developer. He has 15 years of professional experience in building highly interactive web applications.
Portfolio
805 Collective
PHP, jQuery, CSS, HTML, Drupal, WordPress
Emma
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Hapi.js, Redis, PostgreSQL, Python, Django, Node.js...
The Parable Group
VBScript, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, C#...
Experience
- JavaScript - 15 years
- jQuery - 8 years
- Python - 5 years
- Node.js - 4 years
- Backbone.js - 3 years
- React - 2 years
Preferred Environment
Git, Vim Text Editor, OS X
The most amazing...
...project I've worked on was a highly customized drag-and-drop editor to compose HTML emails that display perfectly across all inboxes, both mobile and desktop.
Work Experience
Freelance Web Developer
2012 - PRESENT
805 Collective
- Refactored a large Drupal marketing site to be entirely responsive across all pages using CSS media queries and JavaScript.
- Built custom WordPress themes for several high-traffic websites.
- Built a custom client-side tool for cropping and resizing uploaded images in memory.
- Refactored large CSS code bases to use Sass.
- Wrote custom Drupal and WordPress logic to meet unique client needs.
Technologies: PHP, jQuery, CSS, HTML, Drupal, WordPress
Senior Front-End Architect
2010 - PRESENT
Emma
- Created a drag-and-drop editor for building HTML emails.
- Helped teams onboard Backbone, Marionette, React, Flux, Node, Hapi, and unit testing best practices through personal training and development of best practices and boilerplates.
- Helped make the transition from a monolithic application to a service-oriented architecture.
- Migrated several large legacy codebases to use testable, modularized JavaScript.
- Built a custom WebSockets server that connected to a massively distributed, event driven architecture system and sent real-time updates to end users.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Hapi.js, Redis, PostgreSQL, Python, Django, Node.js, Backbone.js, Redux, React
Web Developer
2001 - 2010
The Parable Group
- Built and maintained a proprietary eCommerce engine, used by hundreds of clients for hundreds of thousands of shoppers.
- Created a custom intranet used by all employees for day-to-day operations.
- Developed custom Access-powered data entry and admin tools that were used internally for day-to-day operations.
- Ported old classic ASP web applications into ASP.NET.
- Styled, reskinned, and customized eCommerce UI and navigation for hundreds of clients.
Technologies: VBScript, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, C#, ASP.NET, Active Server Pages (ASP)
Freelance Web Developer
2004 - 2009
Self-Employed
- Created and deployed custom WordPress themes for sites receiving tens of thousands of unique visitors monthly.
- Built custom eCommerce solutions for independent retailers.
- Created eCommerce proofs of concept for clients using Drupal and Magento.
- Developed custom PHP web applications so clients could collect and process new customer information.
- Helped recover data and improve security for large, high traffic WordPress instances following security breaches by hackers.
Technologies: Magento, Drupal, WordPress, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP
Experience
Education
2002 - 2004
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo, California
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, Underscore.js, jQuery, Node.js, Lodash, Backbone.js, Sinon.JS, Backbone.Marionette, Socket.IO, SQLAlchemy
Tools
Mocha, Grunt, Vim Text Editor, Webpack, Amazon CloudFront CDN, Babel, Browserify, Git, Microsoft Access, Logstash, Bamboo
Languages
ECMAScript (ES6), HTML5, HTML, JavaScript, Python, CSS, Active Server Pages (ASP), C#, VBScript, PHP, SQL
Frameworks
Hapi.js, Redux, Flux, ASP.NET, Express.js, Underscore.String, Flask, Django
Paradigms
Unit Testing, Functional Programming, Agile Software Development, Scrum
Platforms
WordPress, MacOS, Drupal, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, OS X, Magento, Ubuntu
Storage
Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Redis, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Memcached, MongoDB, PostgreSQL
Other
StatsD, Data Structures
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