Patrick Steele-Idem

Fort Collins, Colorado Area United States

Software Engineer, Presentation Platform

Technology / Software / Internet

As a Software Engineer on the Presentation Platform team at eBay, I am responsible for setting the direction for our web application development efforts through both internal and external technology talks and by developing innovative technologies to simplify the creation of complex web applications. I am a strong advocate for open source technologies and have also lead efforts to make eBay a bigger contributor to the open source community. While at eBay, I created RaptorJS (http://raptorjs.org/), an open source modular JavaScript toolset that allows developers to create portable JavaScript code that adapts to multiple target environments. I am the lead creator of Raptor Templates, (htt...