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Adam Smith

@adamsmith3

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Senior full-stack developer specializing in scalable cloud-native applications.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a senior engineering role where I can lead scalable cloud-native development, improve testing and performance, mentor engineers, and contribute to CI/CD and automation in a collaborative, product-focused team.

I am a Senior Full Stack Developer with over 10 years building scalable, high-performance applications using React, Node.js, and cloud-native architectures. I deliver measurable engineering impact through maintainable, high-quality code, automated testing, and CI/CD automation.

I have led test automation and performance efforts for large-scale systems, implemented AI-driven features, and optimized frontends to industry-leading Lighthouse scores while mentoring engineers and collaborating across product and engineering teams to drive reliability and performance.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Software Developer

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Cargo Express Freight

Dec 2023 - Present (2 years 1 month)

Spearheaded test automation and performance engineering for a shipment tracking platform handling 50,000+ daily shipments, reducing post-release defects by 90% and enabling 15,000+ concurrent users with real-time notifications.

Apollo GraphQL Redis Cypress Selenium JMeter TimeScaleDB

Senior Software Engineer

Snapsheet

Aug 2018 - Sep 2023 (5 years 1 month)

Led automation strategy for a cloud insurance claims platform processing 100,000+ monthly claims, built scalable REST APIs and distributed caching to achieve sub-100ms responses and support 5x traffic growth.

React TypeScript Express PostgreSQL Redis OAUTH2 Docker AWS ECS

Software Engineer

Microsoft

May 2016 - Jul 2018 (2 years 2 months)

Developed analytics dashboards and high-throughput REST services for Azure DevOps processing 1B+ daily telemetry events, improving dashboard load times from 30s to under 3s and delivering reusable component libraries.

React TypeScript Express Azure Active Directory

Junior Web Developer

The Zebra

Jul 2014 - Apr 2016 (1 year 9 months)

Built responsive insurance comparison interfaces and backend API services handling 2M+ monthly requests, implemented A/B testing that improved conversion rates by 15% and optimized frontend performance by 40%.