# Adrian Adkison

> Building The Web

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/adrianadkison

I build web apps

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Archy
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Leading frontend technology choices and working with product and leadership to produce rapid and resilient front end results.
- In < 1 year lead a conversion of a large initial app that used JS, raw css, redux, and react class components to typescript, tailwind, react-query, and functional components.
- Built flexible, minimal shared components to enable the team's progress.
- Built core frontend features such as the practice schedule, odontogram, charting tables, payroll, custom forms, account switching, and the main app template layout.
- Joining in 2022 we had an unfinished product with zero customers.  The product is now thriving, attracting new customers daily.

### Lead Web Developer @ Openfit
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
Web Lead for authenticated experience, Jan 2020 - April 2021
- Work with the engineering manager and product lead to define and delegate development tasks.
- Built a live workout class page that allows trainers to see, chat with, and talk to their students.
- Converted existing javascript codebase to typescript.
- Led a visual redesign of the entire authenticated experience.
- Helped implement a new GraphQL API and migrated the web application off of our REST API / Redux state management to the GraphQL API / GraphQL client.

API Developer / Project Manager, April 2021 - Current
- Built GraphQL resolvers using Sanity CMS and REST API as backends
- Write tech specs and tickets from product requirements describing how to achieve features
- Led / Scheduled team agile meetings including stand ups, sprint grooming, sprint planning, and retrospectives.

### Lead Web Developer @ dote
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California, United States
- Built the entire universal web app for Dote's web shopping experience using NodeJs and React from scratch in three months.
- Use AWS/Docker/Webpack for web service deployment and system  monitoring.
- Enforced code quality and integrity via eslint, prettier, git hooks and code reviews
- Designed operational logging strategy using Loggly.
- Translate product requirements into technical tickets for the web engineering team
- Work with the API team for feature architecture sessions.

### Software Engineer @ Elfster
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Lead a small team of engineers in porting a large .NET web application to a universal (client and server side rendering) Vue web application
- Application serves millions of customers daily during the holiday season
- Wrote the majority of application code
- Wrote application development and build configuration with Webpack
- Enforced code quality and integrity via eslint, prettier, git hooks and code reviews
- Designed logging strategy and Kibana dashboard for monitoring application health and activity
- Write RESTful APIs specifications for the API team to serve as a starting point for discussions
- Translate product requirements into technical tickets for the engineering team

### Principal Software Engineer @ SurveyMonkey
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 | Palo Alto
- Front end tech lead for the analyze experience - 2011-2013
- Front end tech lead for the new survey taking experience - 2013-2014
- Member of the Technical Leadership Committee, a group dedicated to making company wide application design decisions - 2014-2015
- Designed new survey themes API
- Received three promotions in three years, ending as principal software engineer

### Software Engineer @ Elfster
Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 | Oakland, Ca
Elfster was a small lean and mean startup.  My responsibility was largely developing the software but ended up performing a variety of tasks. 

- Re-architected the front end of main website from .NET web forms style architecture to more modern AJAX style architecture.
- Wrote C# view request handlers, leveraging back end models and services.
- Created relationships with affiliates and built initial algorithm for tagging affiliate links. This became a major revenue stream.
- Built a front end for Claire's branded version of Elfster
- Worked closely with a designer to develop UX.
- Worked help desk to help users with issues.

### Intern @ Wikispaces by TES
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008
My first software internship! 

- Fixed HTML / CSS / JS bugs 
- Completed HTML / CSS / JS tasks


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Economics
Northwestern University

### High School
Novato High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/adrianadkison

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Last updated: 2026-04-12