I have been a Web Developer for a long time. I started learning HTML, JavaScript and CSS when I was about 10 years old in 1998, not long after the world wide web started taking over the world. The game has changed a little since then. While the title 'Web Developer' used to be enough, today, I am a Front-end Engineer responsible for architecting and developing scalable, high-performance, cross-browser web applications using modern software development design principles and coding standards while keeping in mind accessibility, usability and maintainability. Whew, that's a mouth-full! As you know, all of those things have changed constantly as the web has matured. I have been there every step of the way. I can still painlessly build a site that works in IE6 if I had to. I don't want to know how to do that, but I do. On the flip side I spend a lot of time researching and learning new technologies that I feel will increase my or my teams' productivity. I am well versed with most JavaScript frameworks and toolkits and encourage others to constantly educate themselves on the latest and greatest. My current favorites (in order): Dojo Toolkit, Bootstrap, Angular, Backbone. Of course I know MooTools and jQuery, I just don't use them if I don't have to. jQuery is great for small projects and I simply prefer Dojo over MooTools, though they are comparable.

For about 5 years, I was exclusively a WordPress developer. I really enjoyed being able to build a website for someone, train them on WordPress and then they took it from there. I have since moved away from this kind of work as I am more interested in building really cool web stuff, not just websites for the comon folk. No offense common folk. :) I have a very successful WordPress plugin, WordPress HTTPS, that receives an average of 200-300 downloads every day. When I did have time to work on it, I was extremely active in the WordPress community and aggressively supported and developed the plugin.