Martin Rosenberg

I built and maintained a testing framework and DSL (domain-specific language), along with creating the style guide and design patterns, implementing a code review process, reviewing most of the code myself, documenting everything, and training testers and developers on both the language and the framework. During this time, I also gave a lightning talk on test automation in Scala. Since then, I have closely followed the trajectory of the language and community, and honed my techniques with the language and its unique functional/object-oriented programming (FOOP) paradigm, even giving a 40-minute presentation on it.

Well-written JavaScript (and TypeScript) has a surprising amount in common with Scala, and I've brought my expertise from that to this. I can help you to write clean, safe, modern, and maximally-maintainable JavaScript on the front end or the back. Additionally, as with Scala, I keep a close watch on the direction of the language and ecosystem, even down to stage-1 language features.

In my career as a Software Engineer in Test, I have used every official implementation of Selenium WebDriver (Java, C#, Python, Ruby, and Node.js); used the Java implementation with other JVM languages, for which I wrote DSLs (Domain Specific Languages) to make it more idiomatic (Scala and Clojure); and even used a few other implementations in Node.js. Additionally, I have used the JavaScript framework Cypress.io, and the Python library Beautiful Soup for scraping and testing.

I have an extensive background with languages, including a linguistics degree, freelance editing, and even creating languages. That translates well to computer languages as well: I have used a completely different technology stack in every job I've done and every class I've taken, and thrived in all of them. As that relates to you: I'm very good at picking up the intricacies of any programming language, and helping you learn them as well, making your code in your stack of choice masterful.