Zach Saucier
Mentor
(81 reviews)
US$49.00
For every 15 mins
100
Sessions/Jobs
ABOUT ME
Front-end developer and animator
Front-end developer and animator
For just about anything front-end related, I'm the person you want and I'd love to help!
I've written for CSS Tricks and others, work as a front-end developer (formerly Stripe, Rally Interactive, and GreenSock—the makers of GSAP), am an international speaker on front-end topics, and specialize in web animation and user interaction. I am a Stack Overflow regular who teaches anyone from absolute beginners to people who work in front-end but want to improve their skills.
English
Eastern Time (US & Canada) (-05:00)
Joined July 2014
EXPERTISE
8 years experience | 3 endorsements
I know nearly all the tricks and "gotcha's" of CSS and write semantic HTML. I use whatever I need to, whether it be purely CSS and HTML, ...
I know nearly all the tricks and "gotcha's" of CSS and write semantic HTML. I use whatever I need to, whether it be purely CSS and HTML, SVG, or JavaScript, in order to achieve the effect I desire to create.
I've used HAML, SCSS, Bootstrap, Foundation, and several other frameworks and pre-processors to enhance my capabilities and efficiency as a developer.
I've written a couple of CSS-Tricks articles on the subject of CSS animation and write about it on my personal blog as well.
8 years experience
All the websites I make are responsive. I've written a lot on the subject and preach responsive design to all designers and developers. A...
All the websites I make are responsive. I've written a lot on the subject and preach responsive design to all designers and developers. A mobile-first approach is a must to make the development process easier to make cross platforms.
6 years experience | 1 endorsement
I love making the web animated and interactive. Creating responsive animations and interactions is perhaps my favorite thing to do on the...
I love making the web animated and interactive. Creating responsive animations and interactions is perhaps my favorite thing to do on the web. I've written articles on CSS-Tricks on web animation and have created hundreds, of web animations using SVG, CSS3, and various JavaScript libraries like GSAP and Velocity.js.
6 years experience | 2 endorsements
I love the freedom that JavaScript allows. Though I'm not a master at all thing JS, I use it daily and really enjoy debugging it. I have ...
I love the freedom that JavaScript allows. Though I'm not a master at all thing JS, I use it daily and really enjoy debugging it. I have learned to use libraries like GSAP and Velocity in order to try and make creating animations easier and perform better.
8 years experience | 1 endorsement
I worked for GreenSock for a time and am an expert in GSAP.
I worked for GreenSock for a time and am an expert in GSAP.
3 years experience
I've given talks at local developer and design meetups, presentations at companies I've worked at, and spoken at Front-Trends in Warsaw, ...
I've given talks at local developer and design meetups, presentations at companies I've worked at, and spoken at Front-Trends in Warsaw, Poland.
REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS
(81 reviews)
Kevin Wilson
March 2020
Full of knowledge, great communication and explained things well! Thank you Zach
Wade Murdock
February 2020
Stereotypical intelligent programmer in that he has a focus on pragmatism over personability and may come across as hurtfully sarcastic and condescending at times to some who are particularly sensitive, but helped me with an issue that others found too daunting and had passed up, which I was extremely grateful for. He also was always very prompt and expressed a lot of patience and persistence with the issue at hand, even staying up very late and working early the next day to help get it finished for me. He certainly will not pause the session timer every time he stops to think on how to work through an issue as some particularly generous mentors do, but will stop the timer when working through a stumbling block takes more than a couple minutes, which he's certainly still under no obligation to do. Overall he is assuredly a talented and highly responsive professional willing to persist through challenging problems while keeping a cool head, who takes time to explain concepts as he works with you
David Gonen
December 2016
Excellent, patient mentor with fantastic experience & knowledge. Zach helped me get started implementing animations into a web app. Looking forward to working with Zach more in the near future.
John Balladares
June 2016
Zach was great -- very patient and helped me solve the issue quickly.
Removed User
February 2016
Zach was very helpful and patient, and was thorough in making sure I understood the process. Thanks Zach!
Steve
January 2016
Adobe AEM didnt work properly.. wish it worked.. :(
Sean
October 2015
Knowledgable, helpful, positive. Good mentor!
Michael Merrill
September 2015
Really informative, great teacher, super knowledgeable. Will definitely pair with him again. Thank you!
Sebastian Angelo-Perez
September 2015
Zach is starlight forward and helpful.
Wahiba
September 2015
Great to work with! Really helpful!
SOCIAL PRESENCE
Just-Read
A customizable read mode web extension.
JavaScript
940
119
Disintegrate
A small JS library to break DOM elements into animated Canvas particles.
JavaScript
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22899 Reputation
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132
CSS3 skew all corners
It's not possible to move each corner around freely, but you can combine skew with rotate and transform-origin to create a lot of different effects. Here's a...
Select element based on applied property
You can't select non-inline properties in CSS, so something like div[visibility:visible] wouldn't work unless you explicitly stated the property inside the...
can I add style tag to inner html
You need to return an element that either uses a class or inline styles for it to work properly.
cell4.innerHTML = '<span style="font-size:40px">John...
EMPLOYMENTS
Front-end Engineer
Rally
2021-03-01-Present
I build award winning websites, especially working on the animated and interactive portions of those websites
I build award winning websites, especially working on the animated and interactive portions of those websites
HTML/CSS
SVG
Three.js
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HTML/CSS
SVG
Three.js
WebGL
GSAP
JavaScript
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Frontend Developer
GreenSock
2019-07-01-2021-03-01
I built the GreenSock website, taught people how to use GSAP, and helped people daily in the GreenSock forums.
I built the GreenSock website, taught people how to use GSAP, and helped people daily in the GreenSock forums.
HTML/CSS
Animation
GSAP
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HTML/CSS
Animation
GSAP
JavaScript
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PROJECTS
Just ReadView Project
2015
A feature-packed reader mode web extension
A feature-packed reader mode web extension
Chrome Extension
JavaScript
Chrome Extension
JavaScript