Dr. Axel Rauschmayer has been programming since 1985 and developing web applications since 1995. In 1999, he was technical manager at a German Internet startup that later expanded internationally. In 2006, he held his first talk on Ajax.
Axel specializes in JavaScript, as blogger, book author and trainer. He has done extensive research into programming language design and has followed the state of JavaScript since its creation. He started blogging about ECMAScript 6 in early 2011.