About

Adam Whitehurst is a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer currently working at Vasion. He is an expert in JavaScript and has recently developed a strong interest in Rust. With extensive experience in React, Vue, Django, and AWS, Adam is skilled in UI and UX Design using Figma, Photoshop, and Illustrator. He is also a Game Programming Enthusiast and is excited about ECS and WebAssembly. Unity C#, C++, and LUA are also in his toolbelt. Adam has published Android and iOS mobile apps and is happy to share his experience with interested parties. He has worked for IBM as a Full Stack Software Engineer, where he was part of a global Agile development team building an internal IBM B2B platform used by thousands of IBM employees across both GBS and GTS branches of IBM. He worked on the React frontend with Go microservices transformation layer connected to IBM database. Adam solutioned New Relic telemetry and led React hooks stateless, functional standards. He also implemented C# OpenXML PowerPoint Generator microservice and extensive unit and integration testing and CI automation to ensure platform stability. Adam has also worked as a Frontend Web Development Intern for The Motley Fool. He collaborated with the team to maintain and improve performance on https://www.fool.com/. Adam implemented automated Sauce Labs + Selenium integration tests with failure notifications sent through Slack. He personally discovered and implemented updates that reduced website bundle size and improved page load speed for SEO based on lighthouse scores. He removed old Bourbon/Neat CSS libraries, migrated to CSS Grid & Flexbox, and personally implemented JavaScript-based advertisement and tracking deferral to improve time to first interaction on page load and offload from JS main thread. He was also involved in upgrading from python 2.7 to 3.6. Adam has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of California, Merced, and has studied Computer Science at Merced College, the University of Alaska Anchorage, and San Francisco State University. He also has a High School Diploma from Los Banos High School. Adam's TechStack includes Software Engineering, AWS, ECS, Javascript, Microservices, Frontend, Designer, Django, iOS, Mobile, UI, New Relic, Integration, Web, Android, Test, Selenium, and Jenkins. With 4.28 years of relevant experience, Adam is an excellent addition to any team looking for a skilled and experienced Full Stack Software Engineer.