Adam Baxter
Software Engineer at Shaker Recruitment Marketing
Glenview, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Baxter is a software engineer with over a decade of professional experience who transitioned from a background in mental health counseling into web development after graduating from Dev Bootcamp. He excels at breaking complex problems into manageable steps and building resilient solutions across full-stack projects, having shipped work at companies from Lou Malnati's to Molecule and Enova. Adam brings a pragmatic, human-centered approach to engineering—drawing on counseling skills for teamwork, communication, and empathetic code reviews. Comfortable diving into unfamiliar technologies, he values tools that solve real problems rather than novelty for its own sake. Based in Glenview, Illinois, he balances analytical thinking with creative hobbies like strategic board games and curling, which inform his patience and tactical mindset when designing systems. Colleagues describe him as steady under ambiguity, able to navigate shifting requirements and deliver practical outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Dev BootcampBachelor of Science (B.S.) Psychology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Psychology at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (4)
pocket2
postgresql1
blockchain1
scheduling1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
adamscottbaxter/phase-0-tracks
Apr 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:116 PRs, 116 pushes, 24 branches in 1 month
adamscottbaxter/stonks_react
Feb 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:2 reviews, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 5 months
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