Waterford firm NearForm has appointed Silicon Valley engineer Eran Hammer to its team. The developer, who has previously worked for Walmart and Yahoo, is joining the Tramore-based company to help build on its continued growth.

Mr Hammer is the creator and maintainer of the Node.js framework hapi.js, which is used by a number of Fortune 500 companies, including Walmart, Paypal and Yahoo.

Node.js is a platform that allows users to build fast, easily scalable applications, and microservices.

He joins NearForm at a time when the company is undergoing rapid expansion trebling its growth in staff and revenue year on year. The company recently announced it would add 100 jobs to its operation, and is targeting a total headcount of 150 by the end of the year. Among its clients are Qualcomm, Intel, Universal and Condé Nast.

Growing popularity

“NearForm has been on the cutting edge of large-scale Node.js engineering and the leading force behind the growing popularity of the microservices architecture,” Mr Hammer said.

“I am excited about the many possibilities of combining the two worlds – hapi.js and microservices – into a simple and powerful foundation for the next generation of web and enterprise applications. NearForm opens the door to introduce hapi to a new category of developers by combining the powers of Seneca and the hapi.js framework.”