# Adam Perkins

> Senior Staff Software Engineer

Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/adamperkins

- Over 11 years of software engineering experience, with approximately 5 years of team-leading experience.
- Passionate about having a positive impact with my work.
- Co-built the Eleanor Health member portal from scratch.
- Particularly strong in React/Typescript and acting as a product-minded engineer. Flexible in languages (Go/Rubyon Rails/Java+Spring/Node experience).

## Work Experience
### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Equip
Jan 2023 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead @ Eleanor Health
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Washington, DC
Full-stack team lead on the web app that helps our members navigate their care.
- Reached a 93% adoption rate of the app by members.
- Starting from an empty project, developed appointment scheduling, consent forms, recurring health questionnaires, audio and video wellness content, and an onboarding flow with HTML5 camera capture that works on mobile and desktop.
- Heavy emphasis on responsive design to accommodate all screen sizes seamlessly.
- Collaborating with product managers and designers every day.
- Acted as product manager while team was temporarily between PMs.
- React/Typescript with Chakra UI, Vite, tests in Jest/RTT. Chat integration with Stream. Go backend with Postgres, integrating with Athena EHR.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Pivotal Labs
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Washington, DC
Lead consultant on a project with USCIS that streamlines case review for the U.S. Refugee Admissions program, helping to unify the asylum and refugee workflows through software. (React/TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, Postgres)

Lead an engineering team developing an application that helps the Air Force plan missions 85% faster and is in use 24/7. (React/Typescript, Java/Spring, Postgres)
- Edits displayed in real-time across sessions with WebSockets via RabbitMQ, improving situational awareness of the plan across on-base Air Force personnel.
- Kept the product stable through extreme team churn as 30 engineers, five designers and six product managers came and went on the project in just one year.

### Software Engineer @ LifeLock
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Mountain View, CA
-Took sole development responsibility for LifeLock’s mobile app API backend (Java, Spring) which achieved 4.5 stars on Google Play and 5 stars on the iOS App Store and over 1 million downloads during my tenure.  
-Transitioned into a unified web and app backend API role as stack was overhauled in Node.js 6.11 with Swagger contract validation.  Writing client-facing APIs that interface with data APIs and BPMs, collaborating with architects and always calling out issues in standups, meetings and code reviews.
-Frequently contributing to internal company package that centralizes logic for communicating with data APIs and BPMs. Agile development with Jira, logging management with Sumo Logic, CICD with Jenkins.

### Software Engineer @ IronPlanet
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Pleasanton, CA
Full-stack development and support of IronPlanet's website using servlets, JavaBeans, .jsp's with jQuery, Bootstrap 3 and some Flexbox, interacting with an Oracle DB.  Created responsive no-refresh pages seen by tens of thousands of users.  Designed, programmed and performed project management duties for admin pages to streamline common internal operations.

### Contract Software Engineer @ Nyentek
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Pleasanton, CA
Co-bootstrapped a startup's e-commerce delivery platform in Node.js using MongoDB through Mongoose, the node async library, and the Mustache template system. Participated in foundational data structure design and back-end development.

### Web Developer @ NetIncent
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Fremont, CA
Developed with a front-end focus in a small, fast-paced team using JavaScript and Bootstrap, interfaced with Appery.io’s database solution using raw AJAX.  The app offers customer-based analytics and allows merchants to review transaction history and edit account information.

### Web App Support Intern @ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Supported an in-house application for describing, tracking, and approving/rejecting project proposals for Lawrence Livermore National Lab using Java/HTML/JavaScript/Oracle SQL. Added dynamic reporting tools using the JasperReports framework.

### ISCR Scholar/Computations Intern @ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Livermore, CA
Created an internal website hosted through Tomcat that interfaced with Oracle and MySQL databases, providing the content of unclassified database tables in easily accessible .csv and .xml formats.  Planned, designed, and presented the technical approach to the project to supervisors.

### Marketing Support Intern @ Solyndra
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Fremont, California
Lead management, web site traffic monitoring and reporting, database clean-up and organization. Worked extensively with Marketo.


## Education
### Computer Science in Computer Science
UC San Diego


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/adam-perkins-99952938

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Last updated: 2026-03-22