Jonathan Verrecchia, Front-End Engineer

Also author, technical blogger, and speaker – primarily focused on:

HTML	Semantics, reusable components, SEO, Schema
CSS	CSS3, OOCSS, preprocessors (Sass / Compass)
JS	Object-Oriented, RequireJS, jQuery, and NodeJS

Work Experience

San Francisco - 02/2012 (Present)

Front-End Engineer

Developing features and UI components for Yelp's site and mobile web app, with a strong focus on Front-End performance to serve fast pages to 78 million unique visitors per month.

Also involved in recruiting by giving talks to events, interviewing candidates, and having Yelp host SFHTML5 events.

Paris - 2011 (6 months)

Web Developer Intern

Developed a set of HTML5, GWT, App Engine, and Android apps at the Innovation Department. We won a French Google Chrome HTML5 app contest with a web-based Music Player.

Paris - 2009 (6 months)

Startup Foundation

Co-founded a startup of entertainment websites. I was responsible for designing and developing the sites, using Zend Framework (PHP) for the Back-End and jQuery for the Front-End.

Developer Relations

Author of a French Book about HTML5

Co-wrote a book about HTML5 which covers a wide range of features, such as: semantics, microdata, audio and video, canvas, web sockets, offline apps, etc. The foreword is by Paul Irish (Google Chrome).

Also wrote a guest chapter in another book about HTML5 and an article in Web Design Magazine.

Initializr – Open Source Project

Initializr is my participation in the community to make the web a better place by accelerating the creation of new HTML5 projects. It became the official builder of HTML5 Boilerplate to offer custom builds. 25 000 downloads per month.

Technical Blogging

It comes naturally to me to explain technical topics clearly. People consider me a good teacher because I easily identify their level and adapt my explanation accordingly. I write articles about Front-End on verekia.com and html5-css3.fr.