Laurie has been a web developer since 1996, with occasional breaks to found companies like awe.sm (2010) and npm (2014). He currently works as a Data Evangelist at Netlify. He loves making the web bigger and better. He thinks one of the best ways to do that is to encourage more people to do web development, by teaching them existing techniques and by building tools and services that make web development easier, so they don’t have to learn so much.