John Brett

John Brett is a software engineer passionate about new technologies, open source, and building useful software while travelling the world. Starting out in Ireland with adegree in Computer Science and Software Engineer, he went on to join IBM throughtheir premier internship Extreme Blue, later working on collaboration software as partof IBM's Software Group. There, John mainly worked with PHP and JavaScript, onlyworking with Node.js in his spare time.Later in his career, John moved to a growing...See more

John Brett is a software engineer passionate about new technologies, open source, and building useful software while travelling the world. Starting out in Ireland with adegree in Computer Science and Software Engineer, he went on to join IBM throughtheir premier internship Extreme Blue, later working on collaboration software as partof IBM's Software Group. There, John mainly worked with PHP and JavaScript, onlyworking with Node.js in his spare time.Later in his career, John moved to a growing SAAS company called D4H Technologies.As a lead engineer there, he developed tools to aid emergency response teams globally, all from a lighthouse in Dublin, Ireland. Here, John got more exposure to Node.js, leading D4H's first venture into Node using hapi.js, later joining the hapi.js core team. See less