Johnny Wey
RWX / CDX
Fort Lauderdale · December 3 - 6, 2013
Vice President, Engineering at MapVine
Johnny has been working with web technologies for over ten years. He is currently the head of software engineering at a sales intelligence startup in Denver call MapVine.
MapVine is an advanced sales demand software platform built on the JVM and NodeJS. It allows companies to map products, rules and customers across their enterprise to generate interest before even contacting the target user.
Before coming to MapVine, he functioned as the lead engineer on the Common Services Tier at Time Warner Cable. This tier provided services and a common API for everything from streaming video to scheduling billing orders and had over a dozen constituent applications. Combined with other customer-facing portals, the traffic on sites Johnny was responsible for was well into the millions of requests per day. Prior to working at Time Warner Cable, Johnny helped create the primary OSS at Dash Carrier Services resulting in a VOIP platform that powered the nations leading next generation emergency network.
Johnny lives in Denver with his wife and two sons. He enjoys riding his bike and playing music and volunteers monthly at a local recovery organization in the north Denver area.
Presentations
Optimizing Legacy Web Applications for Mobile: From the Trenches
Ever wanted to know how to optimize your web application for mobile and touch enabled devices? It can be challenging. The same code that performs beautifully on a desktop browser can create a poor experience on mobile devices.
Creating Killer Web Applications with NodeJS: From Soup to Nuts
NodeJS is an outstanding platform but it's pretty low-level. Starting from a core project skeleton, learn how to put together a modern web application using some of the coolest NodeJS tools and packages available. Additionally, we'll also cover unit testing, code coverage and debugging to make sure your web application really shines.
JavaScript MV* Framework Shootout
The world of client-side JavaScript application frameworks is exploding right now. Backbone. AngularJS. Ember. And the list goes on. In this session, you will get a high-level overview of the three mentioned popular frameworks focused on specific criteria including application structure, testibility, dependencies (such as Underscore and JQuery), templates, features (such as dependency injection, data bindings), and community.