# Adam Sheff > Staff Software Engineer at Zenbusiness Location: Greater Philadelphia, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/adamsheff Skilled Software Engineer developing full stack applications with a focus on microservices; utilizing React/Redux for front end with JavaScript and TypeScript. Building RESTful APIs with Node.js and Express. Co-Creator of Kr8s, an open-source Kubernetes metrics analyzer and visualizer packaged with Electron. Featured Speaker for Single Sprout Speaker Series - System Design Patterns | Establishing a mental model for approaching OOP Design Patterns Github Profile: https://github.com/adamISheff ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ ZenBusiness Jan 2024 – Present ### Senior Software Engineer @ ZenBusiness Jan 2023 – Present ### Software Engineer @ ZenBusiness Jan 2022 – Present ### Full Stack Developer @ Kr8s Jan 2021 – Present | Remote ● Bundled YAML configuration files using Skaffold, allowing the application to deploy all necessary components procedurally in a Node.js child process for deploying the application API directly into the K8s cluster as well as configure Prometheus and Grafana, creating a seamless user experience instead of requiring tedious or complicated manual setup ● Built and deployed the application with Electron to make for an easy user setup, portability, compatibility with the three major operating systems and allow for improved security with sensitive and possibly proprietary information ● Designed custom webpack configuration to bundle the frontend to function within an Electron application for fast loading and a seamless user experience with ES5 backward compatibility ● Containerized the application’s API in a publicly available Docker container to seamlessly integrate with running k8s clusters ● Implemented the frontend with React and React Router to take advantage of the minimal endpoints necessary to navigate the application for a fast and seamless navigation while leveraging React’s diffing algorithm to efficiently render metrics ● Configured and integrated custom Grafana dashboards to receive metrics from Prometheus and give an off-the-shelf visualization tool to display some of the Kubernetes cluster information over custom graphs to streamline development ### BreakFASTic | Recipe Tracker with Support for Maintaining User Pantry @ Open Source Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 ● Employed Express server to efficiently handle all incoming HTTP requests, leveraging the middleware design pattern to organize a modular back end with routers and controllers for easy debugging, readability, and scalability ● Handled user routing with React Router to preserve SPA design, reduce load times, and provide a seamless user experience ● Executed third party API requests and implement server-side caching with Axios for application efficiency ● Built out the frontend of the application with React to create modular, customizable, components that would take advantage of the fast diffing algorithm to efficiently render, avoiding unnecessary re-renders of the DOM on user like or save actions ● Constructed a NoSQL database for fast and flexible deployment of user and recipe data with MongoDB ● Utilized Material UI and wrapped the application with a custom developed Material UI theme for visual consistency ### Giftie | Surprise Your Friends With Gifts They Actually Want @ Open Source Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 ● Employed Redux-toolkit to manage state within a React application for a single source of truth and easey of maintainability ● Leveraged TypeScript to enable strongly typed JavaScript with improved debugging experience and real-time type-checking ● Managed user navigation with Redux state to allow for possible future serverless deployment ● Implemented testing with the Jest suite to verify expected behavior and maintain consistency throughout development ### Middle Ground | Guided Meal Decisions for Groups and Individuals @ Open Source Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 ● Styled the application with Sass to easily organize a uniform style in a modular, maintainable structure ● Developed a NoSQL database to take advantage of fast read and write operations and efficient horizontal scaling ## Education ### Computer Science Northeastern University Jan 2003 – Jan 2005 ### Computer Engineering The Ohio State University Jan 2000 – Jan 2002 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/adam-sheff --- Source: https://flows.cv/adamsheff JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/adamsheff/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29