As you have probably gathered by now, my name is Robert Messerle and I've been developing webs professionally since 2008, or unprofessionally since 2000 or so. My primary skills revolve around HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and oxford commas; however, my interests span the entire web development stack.

While I've spent most of my professional career writing code, I also have a strong interest in design. As such, I tend to enjoy working with more visual projects and pushing pixels around like some sort of pixel-bully. Take that, pixels!

Some career highlights involve working as a software engineer at Facebook, where I tinkered with React and evangelized React Hooks. Before that, I was a member of the Angular team at Google, obsessing over animations and Material Design. And I'm sure some other stuff happened before that too, but I can't be expected to remember that far back.

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Well, okay — I guess I occasionally do things that aren't programming. Sometimes that involves photography, drumming, playing video games, or pretending that I live in the various Ikea showrooms.

Angular is a web application framework used to build maintainable single-page applications. My primary contributions were to the Animation API.

While at Google, my primary focus was Angular Material - a frontend library that makes it easy to create good-looking interfaces with Angular. This library was based on Google's Material Design specifications.