Hi, I'm Alan Plum

• based in NRW, Germany
• 5 years working with React
• 10 years working as a freelancer/contractor
• 20 years working on web projects

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanplum/
XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Alan_Plum

I'm currently looking for

• projects of any size (0+ hours)
• solo or working in a team
• writing code or mentoring

✔️ TypeScript
✔️ React (hooks/context)
✔️ Tailwind, Styled Components, Emotion, SCSS
✔️ A11y / L10n / I18n
✔️ Node + Express
✔️ building CLI tools & integrations/connectors
✔️ Docker, Docker Compose
✔️ GitHub Actions / Workflows

Additional bragging rights

✔️ Contributed a PR to React
✔️ Mentioned in HTML Acknowledgements

Some recent open source backend work

All of these consist of code and documentation, unless indicated otherwise.

• arangodb/arangojs

  Node/browser client for ArangoDB. Starting w/ complete rewrite for v3 in 2014, recently converted to TypeScript + Typedoc. Docs auto-published to GitHub pages via actions.

• arangodb-foxx/tableau-connector
  arangodb-foxx/powerbi-connector
  arangodb-foxx/qlik-connector
  arangodb-foxx/grafana-connector

  Series of BI connectors accompanying step-by-step user guides (not public).

• Tutorial: Foxx Fine Grained Permissions

  Tutorial for writing a web service using the Foxx framework w/ example code.

• ArangoDB Foxx service framework

  Foxx framework for ArangoDB. Starting w/ extensions to the ArangoDB v2 API & major rewrite of the public API for ArangoDB v3. Full docs, user guide & upgrade guide.

• arangodb/foxx-cli

  CLI for managing Foxx web services, talks to a REST API I also designed & implemented.