Mike Berman

Senior front end developer

Skills

  • Frameworks
    • React
    • Vue.js
    • Webpack
  • JavaScript
    • ES6
    • TypeScript
    • Flow
    • Node.js
  • CSS
    • SASS
    • PostCSS
  • HTML5
  • PHP & Hack
  • Python

Work

Facebook
Jul 2017 – Present
  • Tech lead on Portal for Work team, aiming to bring Facebook's video conferencing hardware to external companies
  • Overseeing delivery of multiple major projects working with design, project management and dozens of developers across multiple teams
  • Organised and hosted company-wide conference for front-end developers
  • Won an award for efficiency improvements and delivered a presentation to the CEO, CFO & thousands of co-workers
    • IRESS
    Nov 2016 – Feb 2017
    Freelance
  • Helped ship version 1.0 of PRIME, a CRM tool for financial planners
    • Holler
    Mar 2016 – Oct 2016
    Freelance
  • 3 month contract with multiple extensions
  • Lead developer on a project to rebuild Holler's website using React
  • Led the switch from gulp to webpack
  • Introduced code reviews & pull requests to improve reliability
    • StageMe
    Feb 2015 – Feb 2016
    Freelance
  • Workshopped and built customer-facing website
  • Made use of modern technologies including gulp, CoffeeScript, SCSS, and CSS flexbox
    • Westfield Labs
    Nov 2014 – Mar 2015
    Freelance
  • Contributed to the redevelopment of UK, US, and Australian websites
  • Worked closely with an international team, including designers & developer in Australia, USA, and Argentina
    • The White Agency
    Aug 2014 – Nov 2014
    Freelance
  • Developed many JS heavy webapps including a canvas beer label designer for internal use at Lion Nathan
  • Rebuilt White Agency website with GSAP transitions & HTML5 history API
  • Led the introduction of a new toolchain (including Gulp, SASS, Compass, JSHint)
    • Atlassian
    May 2014 – Aug 2014
  • Built internal tool featuring a chat bot that would help schedule company & social events from within HipChat
  • Despite interviewing as a front end developer, the team I joined was expecting a Java dev, so I left after it became clear I wouldn't be able to be productive in my team or transfer to a more suitable team
    • Nearmap
    Jun 2013 – May 2014
    Freelance
  • 3 month contract with multiple extensions
  • Led a project to rebuild the company's primary product, a map browser, from the ground up in order to improve ease-of-use and reduce technical debt
  • Worked on UX, design, and front end development
  • Built new sales site specifically for select industries, and rebuilt main sales site
    • HotHouse
    Aug 2012 – Jun 2013
  • Lead developer (full-stack) in a project to gamify toyota.com.au in order to give away two RAV4s
    • Corporate Interactive
    Jan 2012 – Aug 2012
  • Built over fifty new websites over the course of eight months
    • Radioinfo
    Feb 2010 – May 2013
  • Maintained & updated Django website for two years as their sole developer.
  • Built frontend & backend of new website (featuring new design & new CMS)

    • Find the Invisible Cow

    On a rainy afternoon in 2013 I built a small game in order to try out the new Web Audio API. I published it and moved onto other things, quickly forgetting about it.

    A few months later I was browsing Reddit when I came across my very own game on the front page! It received over a million hits that week, and since then has received publicity on CNN, Mashable, Buzfeed, and from countless other media organisations.

    Since the game's inception, 58,000,000 invisible cows have been found by 15,000,000 unique players.

    Find The Invisible Cow

    Contact

    Email me at mike@berman.xyz.