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 for building maintainable single-page applications. I primarily contributed to the Animation API.

During my time at Google, my main focus was Angular Material, a frontend library that simplifies building beautiful interfaces with Angular. The library implements Google's Material Design specifications.