Adam Alston
Software Engineer
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
Summary
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RockstarAdam Alston is a Software Engineer with nine years of experience across frontend, full-stack, and DevOps engineering based in the Raleigh–Durham–Chapel Hill area. He blends hands-on development with research-minded thinking, focusing on building polished user interfaces and reliable full-stack solutions. An active open-source contributor, Adam has improved UI/UX, documentation, and component attributes within IBM’s widely used Carbon Design System, demonstrating attention to detail and collaborative code stewardship. He routinely refactors and tests features to raise code quality and developer experience, and brings practical DevOps sensibilities to shipping production-ready software. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful problem-solving that bridges design clarity and engineering rigor.
9 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (14)
uid10
javascript10
system-design10
carbon-design-system10
ui-design10
front-end-development10
sys10
react10
ux-design9
scs8
sc8
typescript-types7
typescript7
typescripts7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
carbon-design-system/carbon
Aug 2021 - Aug 2021
A design system built by IBM
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 2 commits, 54 PRs in 7 days
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) aspects of the Carbon Design System by addressing various documentation inconsistencies, adding and updating attribute types in the button and icon components, and correcting spelling errors. They also focused on fixing issues and updating the language throughout the codebase. The user implemented and tested new features, and refactored the codebase.
reactjavascriptdesign-systemibmdesign-systems
adamalston/SQL-Injection
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:34 commits, 2 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 month
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