John K. Paul is the lead technical architect of Condé Nast's platform engineering team and former lead front end software engineer at TheLadders.com. He is a contributor to numerous open source projects including promethify, requireify, jquery-ajax-retry, and js-beautify. He is the organizer of the NYC HTML5 meetup group. He has spoken to various startups around NYC about front end development, and scalable engineering practices.