About Jesse

My name is Jesse Skinner. I'm a software engineer, husband and father. I'm a Canadian from Barrie, Ontario, near Toronto. I live with my wife and two sons. We love to travel, and regularly visit my wife's family in Berlin, Germany.

I learned to program on my first computer, a Coleco Adam, in the 1980s. I always knew I wanted to figure out how to get computers to do things. It felt like magic as a child, and it still does today.

I ran a BBS when I was 13, and I started making websites on Geocities in high school. I learned server-side programming with PHP and MySQL in 2001 to help my friends launch an online radio station, and I've been a web developer ever since.

I have a Bachelor of Mathematics in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo. I'm also the author of Unobtrusive Ajax from O'Reilly Media.

I started freelancing in 2005 and I'm still working with a few clients who emailed me two decades ago. I love the challenge of taking over a messy legacy project and bringing order and simplicity to it, but I also enjoy architecting a project from scratch. Either way, my strength is building web apps that last.

I work with a small number of clients, and I'm currently available to take on a client or two. If you're interested in how I can help, read what it's like to work with me.