Adam Ayres
Senior Staff Web Platform Engineer
California, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Ayres is a Senior Staff Web Platform Engineer with 14+ years of frontline experience and a two-decade career building enterprise-grade web applications and frontend platforms. He has led large-scale replatforming efforts—most notably guiding 80+ developers to modernize Khoros’s UI with React, Next.js, TypeScript, and GraphQL—while introducing a unified design language and micro-frontend architecture to improve delivery speed and autonomy. Adam pairs hands-on UI architecture with platform thinking, driving measurable Web Vitals, SEO, and WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility gains across systems serving tens of millions of users. He’s pragmatic about integrating AI into SaaS—shipping automated localization and thread summarization features to boost moderation and engagement—and mentors teams to adopt component-driven development and scalable patterns. Based in California, he blends deep frontend craftsmanship (including meaningful open-source work on Angular tooling) with strategic leadership that aligns product, UX, and engineering for long-term platform health.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science in Computer Science Computer Science Mathematics, Bachelors of Science in Computer Science Computer Science Mathematics at California State University - East Bay
Stackoverflow
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facebook-graph-api
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google-chrome-extension
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Github Skills (33)
ajax10
javascript10
iframe10
google-chrome-extension10
front-end-development10
html10
angular10
logic10
testing9
unit-testing9
jquery9
css9
facebook-graph-api9
gulp9
jsonp9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jeff-collins/ment.io
Jun 2014 - Jul 2014
Mentions and Macros for Angular
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 15 days
Contributions summary:Adam significantly contributed to the development and maintenance of the `ment.io` library, primarily focusing on its frontend aspects. Their work included adding features like local example serving using Gulp, implementing Karma for testing, and refactoring the codebase for improved structure and maintainability. They also enhanced the user interface by integrating Bootstrap styles and implementing features like search highlighting within the mentio menu. Further refinements included the addition of a default template for the menu and the removal of a promise from the search response.
typescriptmacrosangular
adamayres/peeps
Apr 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:19 commits in 6 months
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