Passionate about startups and web development. I've been building web applications in startups for 13yrs, working with remote teams for 4yrs, and freelancing for 3yrs. My areas of expertise: 1. web development 2. bootstrapping your startup 3. part-time CTO, helping you find a technical co-founder 4. keeping staffing and hosting costs down 5. Lean Startup approaches, Customer validation

Schedule a call to learn about how your team could move faster by applying Extreme Programming Practices. Dave Schinkel is a passionate and experienced software professional who has worked as a consultant, mentor, Technical Coach, and Senior or Lead engineer on dozens of projects for a wide range of clients. He has helped motivate and mentor developers on unit testing, test isolation, and clean code. He has helped reinforce a culture of Agility, which includes setting up automated builds and deployments, trunk driven development, pushing super small changes to obtain fast feedback from developers and customers alike. Dave built and maintains a website WeDoTDD.com (written in ReactJS), which discovers and tracks companies, developers, coaches practicing disciplined Test Driven Development & Extreme Programming. Dave also ran the Global Day of Code Retreat for Pillar Technology - Chicago in 2019. Dave’s professional experience includes a wide range of languages, technologies, and practices: Artificial Intelligence: Continuous Alignment Testing for LLMs, Jupyter Notebooks, MINIO, Goose IDE, CoPilot, OpenAI, Test Driving LLMs prompts, automating LLM tests in pipelines, and Google Gemini’s Generative Language API Development Practices Test Driven Development, Clean Code, SOLID, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery Extensive experience testing ReactJS and backends Languages TypeScript, Java, C#, Kotlin Tools AWS, Google Cloud Docker Travis, CircleCI Azure CI Pipelines GitHub Actions Automated Testing utilizing Test Driven Development JavaScript (Mocha, Chai, Enzyme, Jest, React Testing Library) Kotlin Test Framework JUnit XUnit Node.js Web Applications React, Redux, TypeScript, NextJS Webpack Linters React Styled Components, Flexbox, Material UI, Tailwind CSS Server-side APIs NodeJS, Express.js, Koa.js, GraphQL, Slack API Java Kotlin Databases: MySQL, Postgres Version Control: Git, BitBucket I've worked on ReactJS projects including: o FoxSports.com o Tweedl.com o Proxibid.com o PODS.com o Ford.com o Gitcoin.co (we were brought in to work on this open source project) o ParkerDewey.com o GoFormative.com o Mayfield Robotics (https://lnkd.in/gxuJbH72) o WeDoTDD.com Other projects: o Legacy.com (backend NodeJS) o PersonalizationMall.com (.NET) o TicketsNow.com (now part of Ticketmaster) (.NET)

Karl Dotter is a Designer at Goodreads & Amazon, Former Interaction Design Lecturer at California College of the Arts and Founder of PairDesignCo (PairDesign.Co is a design education focused product design studio working on pair design workshops and workplace productivity tools)

Rails, Agile, XP, consulting, client management, test driven development, continuous integration, project management, all the things!

Ten years of building and leading small remote agile web development teams. Passionate about software craftsmanship and adapting agile practices for distributed teams.  I love working with smart people to solve complex problems.