Matthew Christiansen
From Startup Visionary to Angular Innovator
Salem, Utah, United States
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As former CTO of Bright Bridge Web, Matthew Christiansen has built tech teams, scaled startups, and delivered 180+ apps for Fortune 500 companies and bestselling authors alike. Now a Co-Organizer of the official Angular Community Meetup and software engineer at Limble, Matthew specializes in Angular, Nest, and Go. He’s also a keynote speaker on tech, grief, and family, appearing on podcasts like Front Row Dads and Eternal Optimist. Outside of code, Matthew’s either rock climbing, riffing on guitar, or chasing big ideas.
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Background Jobs Ahoy! Navigating Temporal, RabbitMQ & Kafka
Ever wonder how to keep your Angular app sailing smoothly while background jobs-like sending messages, processing data, or updating records-work quietly below deck? In this session, we’ll chart a course through three proven ways to manage background tasks: Temporal, RabbitMQ, and Kafka. You’ll learn how to batch-process what your ship needs without freezing the user interface. Hoist the anchor and join us for a fast-paced guide to keeping your web app shipshape and your users happy!
Sailing with Cursor: Supercharged Angular Development with AI First Mates
Set sail on an unforgettable journey through the seas of Angular development with Cursor AI as your trusty first mate! From generating components faster than a cannonball to solving tricky coding challenges with AI-powered chat, we’ll explore how Cursor helps you plunder productivity gold.
Key highlights include (add/remove highlights as we want):
- Using Cursor Composer to create Angular components and streamline development
- Customizing project-specific rules to tame unruly seas of code with .cursor rules and cursor project rules
- Enhancing collaboration and efficiency with AI-powered tools
Whether you’re charting new waters in enterprise applications or battling cursed bugs, this talk will equip you with the tools to claim the ultimate treasure: faster, smarter Angular development. Yo ho, yo ho—an Angular life for you!
Dead Mobs Tell No Tales: Navigating the Seas of Mob Programming
In this high-seas adventure, we'll explore the transformative power of Mob Programming from creation to deployment. Hear tales of how this crew-centric approach can optimize your team's synergy, boost productivity, and steer you clear of the hidden reefs and treacherous waters of solo coding. After all, it's true what they say: Dead Mobs Tell No Tales.
Fast-Track Angular: Time-Saving Tips Every Developer Should Know
Why do it the hard way? Learn keyboard shortcuts, inspector tips, and hidden features that will dramatically improve your speed as an Angular developer. These techniques are simple to adopt and surprisingly powerful—perfect for anyone looking to code smarter, not longer.
As You Wish: Magical AI Workflows for Angular Developers
Inconceivable productivity awaits! Step into a fairy tale world where coding is as effortless as a wish from Westley to Buttercup. This session unveils Angular’s new AI portal, generative code assistants, and LLM-driven refactoring. You’ll see how to summon documentation, refactor code, and scaffold new features with a single command - no ROUSs in sight. By the end, you’ll wield AI like the Dread Pirate Roberts himself, making your Angular development story legendary.
Bootstrapping a seven figure dev agency from the ground up.
As a former CEO and self made millionaire Matthew Christiansen will share how he started, grew, and sold his development service agency and became financially independent in his 20's and outline the critical decisions and lessons learned at each phase on the path.
Key Take Aways:
-Developers come out of this full of ideas on how they could start and grow their side project, freelance efforts, or business ideas with real life inspiration.
-Business Owners will gain insights on pro's and cons of working with service based development organizations and will gain strategies and ideas on how to scale.
-Developers will gain an understanding of what frameworks were successful and what worked and did not work when engineering across a large sample size of projects and in the service space.
-Everyone to leave feeling inspired that they can pursue their dream projects and make them profitable along with a few tricks to make them more likely to succeed.
Fun with Feature Flags
What would you get if Dr. Sheldon Cooper's Fun with Flags met feature flagging in web development?...
Brooke Avery & Preston Lamb Present Fun with Feature Flags! This talk will cover the basic hows and whys of using feature flags in an Angular application with a little extra flair from the Big Bang Theory.
Weathering the Storm: Mental Health on the High Seas of Software Development
Mental health isn’t a sign of weakness-even the bravest pirates need a steady hand and a strong crew. How do you chart a course as an outstanding Angular developer without letting your health, family, or spirit drift off course? The drive to master our craft can leave us battling burnout, stress, and neglected relationships-our step count drops, our posture bends, and our family signals SOS.
In this session, we’ll drop anchor and speak honestly about the storms we face: burnout, anxiety, physical aches, and the pressure to be perfect. Through real stories and practical strategies-like setting boundaries, balancing deep work with downtime, and building your crew-you’ll learn how to stay shipshape, at work and at home.
Whether you’re a seasoned captain or a new deckhand, you’ll leave with tools to help you sail toward a healthier, more balanced developer’s life. Steady as she goes-no one navigates these waters alone.
AI Pirate Code-Off: Jack Sparrow, Will Turner, and Elizabeth Swann Battle for the AI Waters
Curious about what AI Model is most reliable to assist you on your Angular Codebase? Want to learn the answer through a fun Pirate Adventure? In this 20 minute workshop we will be the driver and setup 3 different agents to be our navigators each using a different AI Models within the Cursor IDE. We will give one of our navigators the personality of Jack Sparrow (GPT), one will be Will Turner (Gemini), and one will be Elizabeth Swan (Claude). We will then have them navigate us one similar tasks in an already existing latest version of Angular codebase to see which character and model is the most reliable to help navigate us through the creation of components, the setup of signals, and the creation/refactorization of features.
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