Speaker: Steve Kinney

Head of Frontend Engineering @Temporal, instructor with Frontend Masters, founding director of the frontend engineering program at the Turing School of Software and Design

Steve is the frontend architect that works with teams to build performant and maintainable user interfaces. Previously, he worked on Twilio SendGrid's Marketing Campaigns product where he helped build sophisticated user interfaces for their web-based, drag-and-and-drop editor and interactive code editor.

He was on the founding team of the Turing School of Software and Design—a non-profit, seven-month developer training program that turns smart, passionate people into skilled software engineers. He started and was the director of the front-end engineering program. The curriculum is open source and covers web foundations (e.g. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) before moving on to modern client-side technologies such as React, Redux, Node.js, Ember, Electron, React Native, and more. In this role, he has taught hundreds of software engineers who now work around the world.

He is a teacher with Frontend Masters. He has taught courses on state management with React and Redux, JavaScript Performance, building your own programming language, AWS for front-end engineers, hardware hacking with JavaScript, and rapid prototyping an development with Firebase. These courses have been viewed live-streamed around the world and continue to be watched by hundreds of developers every month.

He is the author of Electron in Action, which is currently in production with Manning Publications.

He is the organizer of DinosaurJS, an open web conference in Denver—which is part of the JSConf Family of Conferences. He has travelled the world speaking at conferences such as JSConf US, JSConf EU, JSConf Colombia, RailsConf, Fluent, EmberConf, Node Interactive, EmpireNode, Full Stack Fest, Thunder Plains, NationJS, and more.

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