# Adam Van Antwerp

> Software Engineering || Ridgeline

Location: Reno, Nevada, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/adamvanantwerp

I am passionate about extending creative solutions to emerging problems using approachable and intuitive solutions.  I believe that software development is the most immediate way to reach people and provide novel methodology to circumnavigate existing hurdles.  I'm interesting in finding like minded teams interested in building world class software by applying best practices and evolving industry standards.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Ridgeline
Jan 2024 – Present

### Software Engineer II @ Custom Ink
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
- (Katamari) Team continues to unify other existing community platform projects (Group Order Form, Fundraising) underneath new react client application experience.
    * Established as an organization subject matter expert for React, Github actions, SPAs and RTKQuery
    * Collaboration with ux and product stakeholders to meet requirements within estimated timeframes
    * Supporting the development of a new customer-facing self-serve application for store admin
    * Mentorship of engineers and leading the cultivation of code-culture via pairings, reviews and 1:1’s
    * Teaming up with Webops to further develop AWS-based deployment infrastructure for SPA greenfield
    * Personal focus on developer experience with creation of jest tooling to share mocks across the test suite
    * Built a type-sharing and automated api library on Rails backend using Typescript and RSwag
    * Lead internal React, RTKQuery and Jest workshops for other teams starting new react apps

### Software Engineer I @ Custom Ink
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
- (Pegasus)  Initially hired onto the team providing single page application tooling and design system engineering
    *  Developed create-react-app style npx command for initializing react apps preconfigured with continuous integration and internal component library, which served as an organizational template for new client-side web applications.
    *  CI/CD, testing infrastructure, and build tooling development of a greenfield MUI-based component library using Typescript + React to easily share common UI and increase design system adherence.

- (Katamari) Later on in this role, I was embedded into a product team responsible for some existing lines of business seeking to migrate those products into single page applications using React and Typescript on top of an existing Ruby on Rails backend.
    *  Foundational development of greenfield project build tooling, unit testing, remote + local state management, CI/CD workflows, type configuration, 
    *  Led team contributions of upstream improvements and updates to template repository.  This facilitated the use across organization where adopted changes were used in other new projects.

### Software Engineer @ Fetch Robotics
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Jose, California, United States
Client Engineering - Fetchcore Team
Web client development for management and automation of robotic warehouse logistics
Mapping and rendering via Pixi.js, React and Typescript

### Software Engineer @ Blue Jeans Network
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | Mountain View, CA
Software Engineer - Client Team
Planning and collaboration with design and product teams
Feature ownership with a focus on user experience look and feel while maintaining performance and behavior across client platforms.
Advocate for sustainable and extensible software architecture and testing strategies.
Technologies:
Javascript, React Native, React (on web), Redux, RxJs
Python, Django, Jest, Enzyme, CircleCI, Appveyor, Jenkins

### Hacker In Residence / Class Shepherd @ Hack Reactor
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Remote
Dual responsibility role providing student mentorship alongside providing engineering velocity:
- "Class shepherd" position providing 1:1 and group guidance  while facilitating the online program in a TA-style role.
- Member of the engineering team fixing bugs and developing features on existing program resources while contributing to new tool development for future student use.
Technologies:
Javascript, Python, Backbone, Angular, MySQL, Sequelize

### Django development student @ PDX Code Guild
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015

### Specialty Team Member @ Whole Foods Market
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011

### IT Consultant @ Reno Technology LLC
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011


## Education
### Computer Information Systems
Portland Community College
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014

### Full Stack Javascript Development
Hack Reactor
Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/adamvanantwerp
- Website: http://blog.adamv.io/about/
- GitHub: http://www.github.com/theadamizer

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Last updated: 2026-03-22