Michel Westrate

Michel Weststrate

Trainer, speaker and above all open source developer. Currently hacking at Facebook on Flipper. Author of MobX, MobX-State-Tree, Immer and a plethora of smaller packages. On a quest to make programming as natural as possible. React, JavaScript and TypeScript fan.

Michel presenting

About michel.codes

michel.codes is the personal company of Michel Weststrate, which has two goals:

1. Provide professional services such as speaking at conferences, giving workshops and providing micro-consultancy.

2. Sustain popular open source projects like MobX, immer and mobx-state-tree through sponsoring and services.

Feel free to reach out!

Open source maintenance

Some of Michel's sophisticated libraries are used by the largest companies in the world, such as AWS, Microsoft, SAP, Lyft and DICE. The funds needed to maintain and evolve these projects are coming from sponsorships through the MobX open collective and profits of michel.codes.

MobXmobx-state-treeimmer

A team of DICE employees at React Europe 2018, wearing t-shirts describing their favorite stack: React, MobX, TypeScript!Image: A team of DICE employees at React Europe 2018, wearing t-shirts describing their favorite stack: React, MobX, TypeScript!

Learning material

A lot of Michel's learning material is available for free, so make sure to check out the blogs and talks section. Beyond that, Michel recorded two full egghead.io tutorials which can be watched for free!

MobX Quick Start Guide
...or, check out the MobX book if you want a deep dive into MobX and Mobx-state-tree!
Michel drawing on a whiteboard

Expertise

Michel has been full-stack developer for over a decade, touching code bases in Delphi, C#, Java, JavaScript and TypeScript. As one of the first employees of the start-up Mendix, he has worked in many different roles, in many different teams and on many different stacks. Until its recent acquisition by Siemens. Beyond that, Michel is well known in the open source communities of React, TypeScript and JavaScript. As speaker, blogger, trainer, but foremost maintainer. His packages are downloaded several million times a month.

Testimonials

Michel is brillant, humble, kind, thoughtful and an absolute pleasure to work with. During our 80 hour micro consulting engagement, we've all learned so much from him. Michel is able to quickly understand business problems and how they present in code. Michel has an amazing knack for improving the developer experience. He can envision patterns and clean interfaces early. In short, Michel is a fantastic person and I am lucky to have been able to work alongside him.

Matt Ruby. Principal Software Engineer at Bluestem Brands, Inc.

More people should notice this genius in the shadowsThis dude is a beast when it comes to pushing out amazing open source projects. He's extremely friendly to interact with even if you're a total stranger, and he's an incredible talented dev.

Sponsors

Want to be come a sponsor? Consider supporting MobX and related projects through open collective.

The following companies are already sponsoring with donations of $100 of more to make sure the above projects are maintained and evolved!

MendixCoinbaseFacebook Open SourceCanvaAlgoliaGuildedAuction Frontiermantro GmbHtalentplotCodeFirstBloktFaire