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 I am a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies and I love hiking and chilling on the beach.
My Talks
Being Distinguished
We all want to reach the next level, but how and at what cost? During my journey I've learned many lessons that will help engineers at all levels, from those just graduating from college or a bootc...
Decoupling🔗 with Google Polymer
Are you looking to build a cutting edge responsive web app? Instead of using heavy frameworks that take time to learn, maintain and replace, #UseThePlatform and leverage new web platform primitives...
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...
Strategies for Sharing Components ⚙
Faster, Better, Cheaper - the beating drum for software developers. Do you work in a large shop where teams are using Angular, Vue and React? With the multitude of frontend frameworks today, how do...