WTF are you??? Stephen McCullough Head tea boy @ Kanisi @swmcc - most places @theonlyswmcc - twitter Co-organiser of: pybelfast Belfast Elixir Belfast Ruby (announcement) I will *try* and behave
SWM’s Career - Part 1 10th January 2000 - blackstar.co.uk Websites/apps were built using CGI Javascript was a 2nd class citizen php, perl, asp, cold fusion and JS enhanced remember DHTML?? ;) 17th September 2007 - various places Surviving the great recession Using PHP :( :( :( :( :( 19th September 2012 - RepKnight/Mission IQ/ShopKeep Using ‘modern’ practises/frameworks/methodologies/technology Still siloed as a ‘backend engineer’ - *NEVER* dealt with the ‘front end’
ShopKeep - JavaScript WHA???? JS frontend (react) was baked into the monolith First time ever I had to deal with NPM First year or so I just deferred to a JS Engineer Slowly started getting used to the eco system.. slowly Started to be able to peer review simple bits of JS code BUT… Still very much in a silo
SWM’s Career - Part 2 1st October 2018 - Kanisi Ltd - Rotor Videos Proper ‘startup’ with a limited runway Initially four peeps, with one more coming at the end of this month No silos due to time constraints Just get shit done
Almost finished…. I’m only starting out I’d like to come back in several months Tell you what I’ve learned and what I think It wont be all good I’m in the honeymoon period at the mo