Joe Alves
Mentor
(158 reviews)
US$25.00
For every 15 mins
234
Sessions/Jobs
ABOUT ME
Senior Web Developer with 12 years of experience, 4 years teaching professionally
Senior Web Developer with 12 years of experience, 4 years teaching professionally
Hey! I am an experienced full-stack web developer with a dozen years of professional experience. I've led engineering teams and have 4 years of classroom experience at coding bootcamps. If you're looking for somebody to help you reach the next level in your web development journey, I'm your guy!
I'm adaptable to your goals. If you want debugging help on your projects, let's do it. If you want someone to translate documentation for you, you got it! If you want a mock interview and honest feedback on how you can improve, I've done those a billion times. I can prep you for an upcoming interview, help you network, or just be more productive.
I spend my non-mentoring time working on my web games and working part-time with my freelance clients. Coding is my career and a hobby of mine; you'll always find me doing it!
English
Eastern Time (US & Canada) (-05:00)
Joined July 2022
EXPERTISE
10 years experience | 74 endorsements
8 years experience | 73 endorsements
12 years experience | 38 endorsements
4 years experience | 17 endorsements
8 years experience | 35 endorsements
12 years experience | 18 endorsements
3 years experience | 46 endorsements
REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS
(158 reviews)
Geoff
August 2023
Joe was incredible in answering a slew of code questions I had during a 3-hour session. We explored Kubernetes pods in google cloud to find error logs from previous days, configured a Python Django admin dashboard, get a React project back up and running, helped install React-Router in a different React project, and advised on how to lay out my components before I began building.
Geoff
June 2023
We traced the source of an analytics message through a stack of microservices, starting in the front end and traversing through 3-4 repos. Joe is incredibly fast at understanding unfamiliar code and getting down to the problem fast.
Ryan Krueger
June 2023
Joe is a fantastic mentor and teacher. Quickly becoming one of my favorites on this platform.
Geoff
June 2023
Was unable to boot up a webpack dev server to serve up a new React app, Joe immediately knew from the crypto and ssl library errors that the problem was with my Node version. I would have otherwise struggled for days getting this running. I also learned a ton of practical knowledge about webpack entries.
Geoff
June 2023
Ever have multiple, messy Python installations? Can your apps not find Python even though you have 5 diff versions of Python installed. Joe helped me clear all this up, we went over the PATH and PYTHON variables on my machine. We also cleared up a library dependency in my JS application that was relying on Python. My app finally can install!
Arianna L Johnson
May 2023
Joe is a great teacher with a strong knowledge of Javascript foundations. In our session he was able to teach me the fundamentals of the tree structure and help me solve my first tree leetcode within an hour! I have already booked my next session :)
Geoff
May 2023
We debugged a Wordpress site that was misconfigured. He was able to quickly help me find the culprit in the browser's page source, where we found multiple script tags fighting to load the same code and causing a race condition.
Geoff
May 2023
Joe helped me explore and understand a microservice responsible for redirecting http traffic.
John Sims
May 2023
Thank you again, Joe!
John Sims
May 2023
Another great session of serious skill building!
EMPLOYMENTS
Freelance Developer
Self-employed
2012-01-01-Present
Throughout my career, I have taken breaks from full-time employment to work with local and global clients on all kinds of different we...
Throughout my career, I have taken breaks from full-time employment to work with local and global clients on all kinds of different web experiences.
Web Development
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Web Development
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Lead Instructor
Fullstack Academy
2020-08-01-2022-04-01
Led cohorts totaling about 200 students through a rigorous web development curriculum. My responsibilities included leading classroom lec...
Led cohorts totaling about 200 students through a rigorous web development curriculum. My responsibilities included leading classroom lecture and discussion, supporting student projects, developing modern curriculum, and training other instructors on content being taught. I managed teams of teachers and mentors that supported my assigned cohorts.
SQL
Node.js
Database
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SQL
Node.js
Database
React
JavaScript
Webpack
Redux
Express.js
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Lead Front-end Developer
Enveritas
2018-01-01-2020-08-01
Led development of several products for a global non-profit whose operations gathered, analyzed, and shared data about farmers across the...
Led development of several products for a global non-profit whose operations gathered, analyzed, and shared data about farmers across the world. I led the front-end development of a custom survey building tool. I was also solely responsible for the creation and maintenance of several smaller products used internally by operations and data science teams.
Python
Node.js
D3.js
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Python
Node.js
D3.js
React
JavaScript
Redux
GraphQL
Electron
Three
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PROJECTS
vastView Project
2021
A moody programming puzzle-platformer web game. Built with Javascript for the browser.
A moody programming puzzle-platformer web game. Built with Javascript for the browser.
JavaScript
JavaScript
Download SpeedView Project
2022
A rogue-lite racing game made with Three.js for the browser.
A rogue-lite racing game made with Three.js for the browser.
Three.js
GLSL
TypeScript
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Three.js
GLSL
TypeScript
JavaScript
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