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Jay Bell

About Me

Jay Bell - CTO & Co-Founder of Trellis.org, Angular GDE, Nx Champion, Open Source contributor and podcaster.

I'm the CTO and Co-Founder of Trellis.org, a social enterprise building fundraising software for nonprofits. I've steered Trellis's technical direction since we started in 2018. Today the platform runs ticketing, check-in, auctions, paddle raises, and donations for hundreds of galas, with more than $150M raised for charities and the communities they serve.

I'm born and raised in Canada and call Kamloops, B.C. home. I've been shipping software for over a decade, and have been chasing entrepreneurial ventures from drones to software and mobile apps on the way to co-founding Trellis.

My favorite stack and tools to build with are:

TypeScript Angular Nest Express Nx GraphQL NgRx Nx Cloud/Agents WebStorm CircleCI

Community is where I spend a lot of my energy. I'm an Angular Google Developer Expert, an Nx Champion, and an active open-source maintainer and contributor - you'll find me around the same packages and tools I used in my job and hobby projects. I co-host The Angular Plus Show, write the Trellis Engineering Dispatch newsletter, and share what we're learning on the Trellis Tech Blog.

Off the clock, I'm probably building The Animus, a Warhammer 40k companion app that helps players play the Horde game mode for Warhammer 40k, mountain biking, or just coding for fun.

Things I do
Podcast
The Angular Plus Show
The home of ng-conf's official all-Angular podcast. Listen on Spotify.
Hobby
The Animus app
Warhammer 40k companion app built with Angular and Nx for playing Horde mode.
Community
Angular GDE / Nx Champion
Helping grow the Angular and Nx communities through talks and open source.
Work
Trellis
Building software that has to hold up when it matters most. Read the Trellis Tech Blog →
Show
This is Tech Talks
A show about tech, software, and the people building it.
GitHub github.com/yharaskrik - open source contributions
Twitter @JayCooperBell
LinkedIn in/jay-bell-b7017681 - Trellis Engineering Dispatch newsletter
YouTube @jaybell7291 - The Angular Plus Show & streams
Twitch yharaskrik - occasional streams
Nx Champion nx.dev/community - Nx Champion profile
Newsletter Trellis Engineering Dispatch - my LinkedIn newsletter