Steve
Adams

An experienced engineer focused on delivering lovable, scalable, performant experiences.

Work Experience

Jan 2008 - Current

Senior Software Engineer

Developed a simulation environment for a robotic arm, streamlining experiment planning and saving researchers time and hardware costs
Refactored a logistics system's SQL schema and backend to improve worst-case query performance by ~18x, average by ~3x
Rebuilt a realtime, multiplayer game’s Python backend in Go, reducing the number of live instances at peak loads from ~50 to 4, and reduced spin-up times by ~80%
Developed a multi-tenant CMS with SSO for unified website management, including granular RBAC, drag-and-drop content editing, and a custom React-based RTE for long-form content

Mar 2020 - Apr 2022

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Built very fast, reliable, and capable React-based UIs with exceptional look and feel
Contributed to building an incredibly fast (8s to DNS propagation) domain registrar from the ground up
Built services with Node, Go, and Rust such as authentication, payments, and bot detection
Improved frontend search performance by orders of magnitude by improving rendering performance and simplifying state management
Established cohesive and clear conventions and direction for frontend technologies across several applications, enabling fast, reliable, and quality execution

Nov 2015 - Aug 2019

Senior Software Engineer

Helped build a WYSIWYG “site builder” for Checkfront customers’ inventories
Built CLI tooling to standardize and expedite site builder theme development
Determined tools and strategies to gradually refactor the core booking product over 18 months
Improved site builder onboarding by reducing average processing time from ~15s to 1.5s
Led planning and implementation of end-to-end testing of the site builder

Mar 2012 - Aug 2015

Software engineer

Helped build a custom reporting API for fast querying of coarse or granular time series data spanning minutes to years
Created a flexible, intuitive, and capable UI to integrate with the reporting API featuring zoom and drill-downs, multivariate analysis, and event annotations.
Built and maintained a large CMS tailored to the company’s business

2010 - 2012

Designer/Developer

Independently designed assets and landing pages for network properties
Developed a PHP-based system for dynamically serving landing pages, dramatically simplifying the development and deployment of dozens of landing pages through consolidation of code and ease of reusing templates and assets