Sequoia McDowell is a software engineer-cum-educator specializing in Node.js (at the moment). He’s spoken at national programming and IT conferences on topics ranging from testing to build tools to encrypted communication, and he's one of the few JavaScript educators with the distinction of having run Node.js trainings in every time zone in the continental United States. As a member of the NodeSchool community, Sequoia has extensive experience teaching people about Node.js both online and off.