Dave Riedstra
Web Developer at Freelance Musician
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolDave Riedstra is a versatile web developer and composer with 10 years of experience building everything from single-page startup apps to WordPress sites and experimental sound installations. He combines front-end fluency (Angular, TypeScript, SASS) and server-side skills (Node/Express, .NET Core, MySQL, Firebase) with hands-on devops and build-tool experience (Webpack, NPM, Git). Comfortable in small teams and freelance settings across Toronto, Victoria, and Oakville, he focuses on effortless user experiences and pragmatic, maintainable builds. His background in contemporary composition and performance informs a process-driven approach to interaction design and creative technical problem-solving. Notably, he has delivered production work at Tellwell using Angular + .NET Core and continues to apply multimedia and hardware platforms (PhoneGap, Raspberry Pi) to experimental projects. He brings a rare blend of artistic practice and full-stack development that surfaces social and relational aspects of digital products.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Music, Composition, Master of Music, Composition at University of VictoriaPostgraduate Diploma Certificate, Interactive Multimedia, Postgraduate Diploma Certificate, Interactive Multimedia at Sheridan CollegeBA, Music, BA, Music at University of Guelph
English, German, French
Stackoverflow
63reputation
1kreached
1answer
4questions
Github Skills (184)
synthesis10
gtk10
launcher10
javascript10
gestures10
computer-music10
music10
angular10
cli10
gitcommand10
swipe-gestures10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
terminal-ui10
touchpad10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
daveriedstra/dried-utils
Jan 2019 - May 2022
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
daveriedstra/libinput-gestures
Nov 2018 - Sep 2021
Actions gestures on your touchpad using libinput (fork with 3-finger drag)
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 2 years 10 months
rotatetouchpadswipe-gestureslinuxtrackpad
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.