I am Stephen Done, developer at Simplifile, LLC, grateful husband of Tiffany Done, and proud parent of five boys.

Economist. Singer. Cyclist. User interaction designer. Teacher. Renaissance man.

What do you do when you realize a year into your Economics Ph.D. that you don't want to spend your life as a researcher? You teach yourself to program, of course. After a few years as a Business Analyst at Wells Fargo and University of Phoenix, and studying programming on the side, I attended a programming bootcamp and found a job as a web developer at OneExchange and then at Simplifile.

My first application can be found at app.firstclassscouting.org. The application tracks Boy Scouts for their first set of advancements and makes it easy for a scoutmaster to see who is missing which requirements. Technical details: Mongo database hosted on MongoLab, served up from a Node server running Express on Heroku, with an Angular 1 frontend using Angular Material Design for the layout.

I enjoy myself most when I get deep into designing user interfaces or when I can design a new application from the ground up. At Simplifile I make technical and interface design decisions for our front-end application. I train others on new programming patterns and libraries. I work closely getting our interns up to speeed. I wrote a replacement for our selector library using functional programming that can display thousands of elements with no lag, full keyboard interaction, filtering, and dead-simple developer configuration.

My wife and I adopted our three older boys. Our two youngest are the result of snowflake adoptions. I'm happiest when I can take them on a hike or a bike ride.

Favorite Dev Tools: JavaScript, React, VSCode, Lodash, Redux

Daily Dev Tools: Angular 1, Angular 2, Lodash, Java, IntelliJ