Building Backpack: a wallet & exchange all in one Previously built Draftbit, a platform that empowers anyone to build mobile apps right in the browser. Highly driven and energetic leader & entrepreneur in Chicago. I always knew I wanted to build things. At the age of 12 I started my first business selling templated logos and websites on eBay. As you could imagine, client phone calls didn't go as planned. Since then I've explored numerous technologies both as a consultant and as a founder. Part of the fun is exploring and contributing back to cutting edge technologies. Over the years, I've been lucky enough to build or contribute to tools used by folks all over the world: Apollo, Emotion, Expo, React Native, GraphQL, React, Rescript & ReasonML. Talks I've given: - 2021 The Way We Code is Fundamentally Going To Change Forever @ Render ATL (Atlanta, GA) - 2021 GraphQL: Wrong Answers Only! @ GraphQL Asia (Remote) - 2021 What is ReScript? A Deep Dive @ Harry Wolff Podcast (Remote) - 2021 Building Apps with React Native & ReasonML @ Undefined Podcast (Remote) - 2020 Unifying React Native Across All Platforms @ React Native London (London, UK) - 2020 GraphQL: Getting Past Step 3 @ Global React Meetup (Remote) - 2020 Typescript vs. ReasonML - When Sh*t Gets Real @ React Chicago (Chicago, IL) - 2020 Why You Should Consider Using ReasonML @ Modern Web (Remote) - 2019 Work Life Balance Founder Discussion @ MHub Chicago (Chicag) - 2019 Building Apps Visually with Draftbit @ App.js Conf (Krakow, Poland) - 2019 Building Next Generation Apps Visually using Draftbit @ React Native EU (Wroclaw, Poland) - 2019 Becoming 10x the engineer @ Detroit Tech Watch (Detroit, MI) - 2019 ReasonML & the future of React @ GOTO Conf (Chicago, IL) - 2019 Building Apps Visually with Draftbit @ MagnoliaJS (Jackson, MS) - 2019 How ReasonML Has Helped our Hiring Process @ Reason Conf (Vienna, Austria) - 2019 Building Apps Visually with Draftbit @ App.js Co (Krakow, Poland) - 2018 ReasonML - A love Story @ React Chicago (Chicago, IL) - 2017 Stress & Anxiety as a developer @ DevOpsDays( Chicago, IL) - 2017 Things I wish I knew about React Native when I started @ React Native Chicago (Chicago, IL) - 2016 Future of High Performance Node @ Node Foundation (Chicago, IL) - 2016 Moving Practically @ React Remote Conf (Chicago, IL) - 2015 What The Flux? React + Flux Tips & Tricks @ Code n Cans (Chicago, IL) - 2015 React Audio - A Declarative approach @ React Rally (Salt Lake City, UT) - 2015 Building a hybrid Backbone / React application @ JSConf (Florida)