Bio
Chris has worked at Comcast since 2007 – currently as a Distinguished Engineer. He enjoys building/motivating teams and ramping up new projects using the latest patterns and web primitives. Outside of Comcast he likes speaking, hiking and chilling on the beach with his family.
My Talks
Hands on Performance Tuning Web Apps
Performance is the number one feature for web apps to compete with Native Apps. To remove jank from the experience, the Chrome dev tools provide some excellent insight into the root cause. Let's ex...
Hands on with Jest
Jest is a JavaScript Testing Framework with a focus on simplicity designed to delight developers. Set up is easy, the api is great and well documented, yet we’ve all seen tests written for code cov...
Intro to Progressive Web Apps
What’s a progressive web app (PWA)? Should you turn your site into a PWA? Does it replace the need for a Native Web App? Do PWAs work offline? This session will provide answers to these questions a...
Intro to Web Components
Native browser support for Web Components is complete, providing web developers with powerful new APIs. Web Comp allow developers to create reusable components without a framework. During this talk...
Performance Optimizations for Progressive Web Apps
Struggling to get your website to load in less than 5 seconds on a mobile phone? You’re not alone! At Comcast we’ve built many responsive sites and work hard at optimizing for performance. Using th...
Unleashing the Speed and Versatility of SolidJS
SolidJS is the fastest frontend framework available with a programming style similar to React. Signals, JSX, Reactivity and Server side rendering - Solid has it all – including a Universal Renderer...