Michael Perrenoud

I've been building and architecting abstract and complex .NET applications for more than a decade. I've built everything from static to completely dynamic applications. I've performed code generation from meta-data to build compilable and deployable .NET applications from nothing. I support applications that are accessed by hundreds of thousands of users across the country. These applications are proprietary in general but have shaped my experience over the years.

I've been building C# applications since the inception of the language. That's going on more than 13 years now. This is likely my strongest language, but JavaScript and T-SQL are *very* close seconds. Architecting, implementing, mentoring, and supporting C# applications is like breathing. I support applications that are accessed by hundreds of thousands of users across the country. These applications are proprietary in general but have shaped my experience over the years.

I use React + Redux and the UI Router for React in almost every new project if I'm given the preference. It's the best library I've found to date because it's not as opinionated as a framework (e.g. Angular) but it's more performant than almost any library out there. It gets out of your way when you need to do some stuff like work with d3, but aids you when you need to bind to forms, perform state changes, and make multiple UI changes based off the state of the application quickly. It truly is, I believe, the best fit for all modern web applications!

When it comes to JavaScript, all I can say is it's my go to platform for all new web development. Though I've been building .NET applications for more than 12 years now, with the inception of Node.js and now io.js, I'm able to build full-stack web applications on one language. I support applications that are accessed by hundreds of thousands of users across the country. These applications are proprietary in general but have shaped my experience over the years.

I've performed hundreds of successful mentoring sessions on Node.js, some of which were to ensure that tens of thousands of users could access the system at the same time. This meant ensuring that their architecture was sound, including other types of technologies like Redis and AWS.

AngularJS has to be the greatest web framework on the market. It's a mature framework that does what it should and gets out of the way when it should as well. It's not opinionated but provides enough constructs to create a modular application. The upcoming release of 2.x has been hyped as scary, but the changes are good and the support for 1.x isn't disappearing. The vast majority of my mentoring comes on AngularJS today. Mentoring developers on directives and services is often a hot topic. Even testing AngularJS with Jasmine and Karma.

I've been using jQuery since its inception. It's a phenomenal framework and has grown immensely over the years. Without it I don't think many modern frameworks like AngularJS or Meteor.js would have even gotten off of the ground. They truly stand on the shoulders of giants when it comes to that. I've used jQuery to do so many different things they couldn't possibly be listed here. I love leveraging the $.on for dynamic event listening as well as the $.selector.find to improve performance if I had to pick a couple.