Remy Sharp

Current

Founder at Full Frontal JavaScript Conference
Owner at Left Logic

Past

Lead Developer at Digital Look

Education

Kingston University

Recommended

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Connections

116 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

Remy Sharp’s Summary

Remy Sharp is a developer, speaker, blogger, author of upcoming jQuery for Designers (Manning) and co-author of Introduction to HTML5 (New Riders). He also organises the Full Frontal JavaScript Conference and is one of the curators of HTML5 Doctor.

jQuery team member (developer relations, formally evangelism) and the developer on a fistful of JavaScript related apps, Remy loves his JavaScript and he is keen as mustard to share it with other developers.

Remy Sharp’s Specialties:

javascript, jquery, twitter development, html5, mobile web apps, html5 apps

Remy Sharp’s Experience

Founder

Full Frontal JavaScript Conference

(Internet industry)

April 2009 — Present (1 year )

A one day JavaScript conference held in Brighton, UK whose essence is to discuss JavaScript "with nothing concealed or held back".

The aim to discuss JavaScript's strength as a language, looking at performance, widget, how JavaScript exists outside the browser and to look at accessibility particularly via ARIA.
Owner

Left Logic

(Internet industry)

September 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)

Running my own web development company focused on bespoke development, leaning towards front end enhancements.
Lead Developer

Digital Look

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)

1999 — 2008 (9 years )

Started as one of the first developers on Digital Look, long before it was a full time project, over the years building it's original architecture.

Worked with optimising MySQL, huge datasets, configuring and optimising apache, developing using Perl, HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Lead the early development team as Head of Technology and choosing later to reduce my role to developer to focus more on the development aspects of the role.

Now regarded as an expert and used for specialist tasks.