Hi, I’m Craig Freeman, a front-end engineer and organizer of the Denver Code Club in sunny Colorado. I write scalable, maintainable code to create clean, consistent and effective user interfaces by utilizing the latest industry trends.
Craig Freeman
Front-End Engineer
Design
My graphic media background has instilled in me an eye for design, rhythm, and cleanliness. I’m an advocate for consistent themes and I appreciate intuitive interfaces, both of which lend themselves to an enjoyable user experience. As needed, I am able to make revisions to design mockups and wireframes.
Front-End
I create progressively-enhanced web sites and single-page applications by adhering to the CSS Guidelines. My scalable Sass styles, object-oriented JavaScript and application of responsive web design principles marries data with design for optimized communication. This positions me as a seamless bridge between design and the back-end.
Back-End
Whether writing routes for API endpoints, leveraging an ORM, or manually retrieving data from MySQL, my experience with Node.js and MVC frameworks, such as Laravel, gives me a clear perspective on how to best provide data to the front-end.
Portfolio
Articles
Musings
Every few months I’ll think of an idea for a great blog post, create the draft in WordPress, and go on about my day. Sadly, days, months, and years have gone by without revisiting these ideas. The truth is that I’ve been so busy absorbing all kinds of interesting things while working at Kenzan, my… More
AngularJS Deep Dive
I had been hearing about AngularJS more frequently through the various channels – Twitter, blogs, newsletters, meetups, podcasts, etc. – so about 18 months ago, I started looking into it. I dabbled here and there until I had the opportunity to work on an Angular app in production, which only furthered my interest. While looking for work earlier this… More
Master’s Degree Aspirations
I’ve decided to start chipping away at the prerequisites towards a Master of Software Engineering degree through Penn State. I have handful of classes to take at CU Denver before I apply to the program, which would give me enough time to pay off the rest of my Bachelor’s loans. I’m not looking forward to… More