wmatthau

wmatthau

Orange County

Experienced software/systems engineer, who has now moved into product management.

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Skills & Experience

  • Company

    TripCoach

  • Job Title

    Founder

  • Spoken Languages

    • English
    • Spanish (poorly)
    • Portuguese (learning)

293 Achievements

  • Exploring Async/Await
  • Understanding Promises
  • Asynchronous JavaScript with Callbacks
  • What is Asynchronous Programming?
  • Build Modular Interfaces with Components
  • Stateful Components
  • Introducing Props
  • Thinking in Components
  • First Steps in React
  • Responsive Layouts With the Bootstrap Grid
  • Getting to Know Bootstrap 4
  • Adding a New Web Page
  • Make It Beautiful with CSS
  • HTML: The Structural Foundation of Web Pages and Applications
  • Getting Familiar with HTML and CSS
  • Improving Our Tests
  • Behavior Driven Development with Mocha & Chai
  • Angular Form Validation
  • Angular Basic Forms
  • Services in Angular
  • Angular Components
  • Practice forEach
  • Array Iteration
  • Using the Discovery Service
  • Using the Conversation Service
  • Introducing the Watson APIs
  • Playing a Counting Game
  • Getting the REST You Need 2
  • Dockerize a Web App
  • Managing Images and Containers
  • Building Images Using Dockerfiles
  • Fundamentals of Docker
  • Docker Use Cases
  • Intro to User Experience (UX) Design
  • Cleaning Data
  • Describing Data
  • Python: Advanced Objects
  • The Data Analysis Process
  • Getting to Know Your Data
  • Introducing Data Analysis
  • Getters and Setters
  • Working with Classes in JavaScript
  • Object Basics
  • Introduction to Object-Oriented JavaScript
  • All Together Now
  • Functions and Looping
  • Types and Branching
  • Meet Python
  • Exploring Best Practices
  • Test Drive
  • Meet Selenium
  • Go Data Structures Overview
  • Go Flow Control Overview
  • Go Syntax Overview
  •  Working on a Team
  • Working By Yourself
  • Writing a Classifier
  • Machine Learning Vocabulary
  • Introduction to Machine Learning
  • Serving Static Files in Express
  • Applying Express Knowledge
  • Middleware
  • Deeper into Routing with Express
  • Using Templates with Express
  • Getting Started with Express
  • Reusable GraphQL
  • Making Changes with Mutations
  • Fetching Data with Queries
  • WWW
  • Getting Started with GraphQL
  • Building API Routes in Express
  • Testing and Publishing an Alexa Skill
  • Building an Alexa Skill
  • Alexa Skills Kit Overview
  • Security: Concerns
  • Setting up with Create React App
  • Improving the Application Code
  • Editing and Filtering Names
  • Callbacks and the DOM
  • Callbacks with Timers
  • Introduction to Callback Functions
  • Component Lifecycle
  • Creating a Command Line Weather Application
  • Adding and Removing Names
  • Setting Up an Angular Application
  • Traversing the DOM
  • Responding to User Interaction
  • Making Changes to the DOM
  • Chrome DevTools Basics
  • Getting a Handle on the DOM
  • The Browser Environment
  • Create Function Using Arrow Syntax
  • Using Template Literals
  • Defining Variables With let and const
  • Introducing JavaScript
  • Finishing the Game
  • Getting Started with Data Science
  • Python: Inheritance
  • Python: Instant Objects
  • Python Lists
  • Letter Game App
  • Number Game App
  • Shopping List App
  • Logic in Python
  • Python Data Types
  • Big Data at Netflix
  • Where and How Big Data Is Used
  • What is Big Data
  • Designing Dataflow
  • Stateful Components
  • Thinking in Components
  • First Steps in React
  • Introduction to Illustrator
  • Handling Errors in Node
  • Getting Data From an API With Node
  • Introduction to Node.js
  • The Internet
  • GET and POST Requests in a Browser
  • Introduction to HTTP
  • Graphic Basics
  • DNS Basics
  • Ruby Arrays
  • Ruby Logical Operators
  • Ruby Control Structures
  • Ruby Operators
  • Workspace Basics
  • Sessions and Cookies
  • What is Authentication?
  • Building a REST Service
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • Scrum Artifacts
  • Scrum Events
  • Introducing Scrum
  • What is Agile?
  • Getting the REST You Need
  • Simple Mobile Interface
  • Exporting Designs
  • Sketch Features
  • Introducing Sketch
  • More TODO with the MEAN Stack
  • Creating and Editing Data in a MEAN App
  • Setting Up MongoDB
  • Going MEAN with Angular
  • Going MEAN with Express
  • Introduction to MEAN
  • Installing a Ruby Development Environment
  • Installing Programs
  • Environment and Redirection
  • Console Processes
  • Console Users and Permission
  • Moving Around in the Console
  • Ruby Methods
  • Ruby Numbers (Ruby Basics)
  • Ruby Strings (Ruby Basics)
  • How Ruby Works
  • Introducing Unit Testing
  • Go Further With Mongo
  • Working With Collections
  • Understanding MongoDB
  • Getting Started with MongoDB
  • Improving Our Todo App
  • Services in Angular
  • Using Angular's Built-in Directives
  • Controllers and Scope
  • Getting Started with Angular
  • Improving your Gulp Workflow
  • Compile Sass with Gulp
  • Gulp your JavaScript workflow!
  • Welcome to Gulp.js
  • Improving Our User Interface
  • Using a Data Model
  • Views and View Controllers
  • Getting Started with Xcode
  • Swift Value vs Reference Types
  • Swift Properties
  • Swift Inheritance
  • ADS Writing and Preparation
  • Introduction to UI Design
  • Swift Classes and Objects
  • Swift Structs and their Methods
  • Swift Structs
  • Swift Enums and their Methods
  • Swift Enums
  • Swift Optionals
  • Doing More with Express
  • Serving Static Files in Express
  • Using Templates with Express
  • The Request and Response Objects in Express
  • Developing Express Apps Like a Boss
  • Getting Started with Express
  • Updating and Uninstalling Packages with npm
  • Installing Packages with npm
  • What is npm?
  • HTTP Methods and Headers
  • Creating a Basic Template Engine in Node.js
  • Swift Parameters and Tuples
  • Swift Functions
  • Control Flow
  • Collections
  • Operators
  • Types
  • Variables and Constants
  • Handling Routes in Node.js
  • Python For Beginners
  • Creating a Simple Server in Node.js
  • Building a Command Line Application
  • Introduction to Node.js
  • AJAX and APIs
  • jQuery and AJAX
  • Programming AJAX
  • AJAX Concepts
  • Quiz Practice Project
  • Prototypal Inheritance
  • Constructor Functions & Prototypes
  • Introduction to Methods
  • Traversing and Manipulating the DOM with JavaScript
  • Hello, GitHub!
  • Using a jQuery Carousel
  • Add a Sticky Navigation Bar
  • Introducing jQuery Plugins
  • Creating a Simple Drawing Application
  • Creating a Password Confirmation Form
  • Creating a Mobile Drop Down Menu
  • Creating a Simple Lightbox
  • Creating a Spoiler Revealer
  • Introduction to jQuery
  • JavaScript Objects
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • JavaScript Loops
  • Selecting Elements and Adding Events with JavaScript
  • JavaScript and the DOM
  • JavaScript Conditional Statements
  • JavaScript Functions
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • JavaScript Variables
  • Introducing JavaScript
  • JavaScript Objects
  • JavaScript Functions
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • JavaScript Strings
  • Introduction Variables
  • Getting Started with WordPress
  • Treehouse Club - JavaScript
  • Advanced Selectors
  • Structuring Tables
  • Table Basics
  • Choosing Options
  • Organizing Forms
  • Form Basics
  • Better SEO Through Content
  • Creating the Initial Screen Layout
  • Getting Started with Android
  • Introduction to SEO
  • Prototyping With Bootstrap
  • Introduction to Front-End Frameworks
  • Selectors
  • Workflows
  • Working With Remote Repositories
  • Merging
  • Branches
  • Getting Started With Git
  • Why Version Control Matters
  • Pointers and Memory
  • Functional Programming in C
  • Fundamentals of C
  • Listing Inventory Items
  • Adding a Contact Form
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • Creating the Menu and Footer
  • Getting Started with PHP
  • Functions
  • Objects and Arrays
  • Control Structures
  • Basics
  • Forms
  • Tables
  • Objects
  • Links
  • Lists
  • Text
  • Introduction
  • Debugging HTML and CSS Problems
  • Sharing a Website
  • Responsive Web Design and Testing
  • Adding Pages to a Website
  • Styling Web Pages and Navigation
  • Customizing Colors and Fonts
  • CSS: Cascading Style Sheets
  • Creating HTML Content
  • HTML First
  • Beginning HTML and CSS
  • Newbie