Hello, Dave Cooper

I’m a web developer based in Toronto, Canada.

Hello, I’m Dave Cooper. I’m a web developer based in Toronto, Canada. I have more than a decade of experience building enterprise apps and websites. I’ve worked with organizations such as Telus Communications, Honda Canada, Wave Financial, Ecobee, The Canadian Olympic Committee, and The Hospital for Sick Children.

I have a tenacious work ethic, I love solving complex problems, and I’m good at getting productive quickly on new projects.

What’s important to me

  • Building performant, scalable, and accessible user experiences
  • Writing readable, maintainable, and elegant JavaScript + TypeScript, CSS, and HTML
  • Providing a good developer experience to my team
  • Writing tests that add business value
  • Architecting flexible, scalable front-end solutions

What I’m working with

  • Frameworks: React, Redux, RTK Query, Vue.js, Next.js, Remix
  • Platforms: Gatsby, Contentful, Strapi, Sitecore
  • Languages: JavaScript + TypeScript (browser and Node.js), HTML5, and CSS3 (CSS-in-JS, SASS and LESS)
  • Build tooling: Vite, Rollup.js, Webpack and Babel

Work status

I’ll be available for new projects in May, 2024.

March 23, 2024

Some thoughts on the backend-for-frontends pattern, and how it can help you build better apps.