Well, for what it's worth, he has a Masters in Computer Science, his open source Initializr project is pretty popular apparently, this tutorial has 3700+ stars on Github, he wrote a book on HTML5, and was a front-end engineer at Yelp.
Edit: I find the article to be fairly well written, and I do have a background in reporting and am a full time dev using most of these tools (although I'm not particularly bound to them).
You can see his Github here https://github.com/verekia And his resume here http://verekia.com/resume/
Edit: I find the article to be fairly well written, and I do have a background in reporting and am a full time dev using most of these tools (although I'm not particularly bound to them).