Justin Meyer
CEO at Bitovi
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Meyer is a seasoned JavaScript leader and founder with 16 years of experience building web, mobile, and desktop applications as CEO of Bitovi in Chicago. He combines hands-on engineering with company leadership, offering consulting, development, and training while guiding open-source frameworks like CanJS, DoneJS, StealJS and DocumentJS. His contributions span core library maintenance, async/data-binding enhancements, synthetic event tooling, and improving developer docs—showing a focus on both runtime quality and DX. Justin’s background ranges from research in parallel computing to enterprise work at Accenture, giving him a rare mix of systems thinking and product delivery. He’s equally comfortable shipping fixes to production builds as he is shaping developer ecosystems and training teams to adopt modern JavaScript practices.
16 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BE Computer Science, BE Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
javascript10
event-handling10
jquery10
testing10
drag-and-drop10
dom-manipulation10
front-end-development10
html10
build-process10
lessc10
documentation10
canjs10
code-cleanup9
model-view-controller9
bundling8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
bitovi/syn
Oct 2011 - Mar 2021
Standalone Synthetic Event Library
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 8 PRs, 19 pushes in 9 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily focused on updating and maintaining the `syn` library, a standalone synthetic event library. Their contributions included updating the build process and incorporating changes, likely to enhance functionality and compatibility. A significant portion of their work involved modifying the `dist/syn.js` file, indicating direct interaction with the library's core code. The user also added tests.
syntheticstandalone
bitovi/documentjs
May 2010 - Jan 2016
The sophisticated documentation engine
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:354 commits, 16 PRs, 38 pushes in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Justin's commits primarily focused on enhancing the "documentjs" library, specifically by adding new features and improving the documentation structure. They implemented directives for features such as download links, parent directives and also added source code, while making adjustments to improve the overall visual style of the documentation. These changes indicate a focus on improving the user experience and functionality of the library's documentation.
markdownengine
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