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
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Github Skills (25)
javascript10
event-handling10
jquery10
testing10
drag-and-drop10
dom-manipulation10
front-end-development10
html10
build-process10
lessc10
documentation10
canjs10
maintenance9
code-cleanup9
model-view-controller9
Programming languages (8)
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.
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canjs/canjs
Aug 2011 - Apr 2020
Build CRUD apps in fewer lines of code.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 2331 commits, 608 PRs in 8 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Justin's commits focus on modifying the syntax of async compute features and implementing changes related to defining and handling data binding in the CanJS framework, including the correct handling of two-way binding. They implemented features to handle and support a component's template, as well as ensuring that correct reference handling and data binding interactions were in place. The commits reflect a focus on improving the usability and functionality of core component features within the framework.
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