David Stephenson JavaScript
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I am a teacher and engineer with a passion for helping others. I have several years of experience as a professional software development teacher, helping hundreds of students get jobs using JavaScript, Typescript, and Node. I focus on modern React using hooks, context, and component frameworks like Material-UI and React-Bootstrap. I also have more than 5 years of experience as a fullstack web development and machine learning engineer with numerous technologies including Firebase, jQuery, and p5. I earnestly love vanilla JavaScript, and have several years of professional experience with other languages including Python, C#, and ActionScript.

My specialties are absolute beginners, small businesses, and aspiring engineers. For new coders I offer tutoring services from bootcamp support to long-term mentoring and a complete educational experience. I consider it an honor to help someone access the world of digital creation for the first time. I also started without a formal background in computer science. I know you can cross that gap in an engaging, accessible, and fun way.

For small business I offer technical consulting, collaboration, and pair coding informed by years of programming and management experience. I love the art of software engineering, but my real joy is helping other people master what they want to make. I know how to architect reliable, scalable, and beautiful software that embraces best practices and meets deadlines.

Everyone that wants to make great software should be able to. If you want to become a professional software engineer or entrepreneur and are eager to gain the necessary knowledge, I can help you learn to make apps with the features you want and explain exactly how they work. I would be honored to help anyone improve their understanding, code, or career.

Subjects

  • Programming Beginner-Expert

  • JavaScript Beginner-Expert

  • Web development Beginner-Expert

  • Coding Beginner-Expert

  • React Beginner-Expert

Experience

  • Mentor and Engineer (Sep, 2021–Present) at Objective Enterprises, Amsterdam
    I provide technical consulting, collaboration, and pair coding informed by years of programming and management experience. I enable my clients to architect reliable, scalable, and beautiful software that embraces best practices and meets deadlines.
  • Teacher (Feb, 2019–May, 2021) at Codaisseur, Amsterdam
    I taught full stack development and created a curriculum at a central Amsterdam coding academy.

    - Facilitated the teaching team’s workflow and professional development as its Lead Link.
    - Created a peer-to-peer teaching system where graduates instructed students that increased student graduation, graduate employment, and alumni career advancement.
    - Developed an individual-oriented teaching system with custom applications, dashboards, and feedback systems that maximized personalization and efficiency.
    - Organized a remote learning environment that fostered student connection and kept learning on pace.
    - Authored a no-experience course where students create a neural network from scratch.
    - Represented the educational program at business events and academic ceremonies.
    - Integrated games, icebreakers, and team play events that made learning engaging.
  • Engineer (Jun, 2017–Dec, 2018) at Tripaneer, Amsterdam
    I relocated to Amsterdam to join Tripaneer, a travel marketplace startup.

    - Served as the central source of JavaScript guidance for all client-side work.
    - Founded and managed a knowledge sharing and continuous feedback program.
    - Refactored legacy systems into a single asset pipeline, improving page speed and conversion.
  • Engineer (Jun, 2015–Jul, 2017) at Remedy Health Media, Arlington
    I built web services at a healthcare firm for people with chronic life-threatening conditions.

    - Built high-scale consumer facing websites and APIs for thousands of daily users.
    - Designed an agile workflow that increased engineer-stakeholder collaboration.
    - Architected programmatic test coverage, improving reliability and development velocity.
  • Engineer and Analyst (Sep, 2013–May, 2015) at Bae systems, McLean
    I invented and led the development of an ontology-filling application for a defense contractor to analyse data gathered in counterterrorism-related intelligence operations.

    - Created a suite of natural language processing programs to analyze rich web data.
    - Led code reviews that produced well-documented, readable, and fully tested applications.
    - Used free time to create Python and JavaScript training for colleagues and customers.
    - Interfaced with stakeholders, vendors, and users to support and improve a successful multi-year project.
    - Tutored data scientists in application engineering who found new careers as developers.
    - Contributed analysis and research to security projects in international conflict zones.

Education

  • Bachelor of Arts (Sep, 2009–May, 2013) from Campbell university

Fee details

    €30–60/hour (US$32.61–65.22/hour)

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