Adam Bjerstedt
Principal Software Engineer - Mobile at Happy Cactus Solutions
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Bjerstedt is a Principal Software Engineer with 8 years focused on mobile and CI/CD engineering, currently leading mobile efforts at Life Time Inc. and running his own consultancy, Happy Cactus Solutions. He specializes in architecting testable Flutter and native iOS/Android apps, modernizing test platforms (Playwright, XCUITest, Espresso) and migrating organizations to GitHub Actions, JUnit5, and shift-right deployment practices like blue/green and canary. Adam blends hands-on engineering—rebuilt Target’s Android checkout and led expansive automation frameworks—with organizational change: mentoring SDETs/QAs, establishing developer-owned test automation, and reducing tech debt via Module Federation and Vue modernization. An active contributor to the popular WebdriverIO project, he’s extended test suites and built edge-case scenarios for browser and mobile automation. Known for pragmatic automation that treats production code as testable product, he prioritizes stability, repeatable CI pipelines, and measurable developer productivity improvements.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts, Associate of Arts at Century CollegeBachelors of Applied Sciences Computer Forensics, Bachelors of Applied Sciences Computer Forensics at Metropolitan University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
testing10
automation10
javascript10
automations10
webdriverio10
jestjs10
test-automation10
mochajs9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
webdriverio/webdriverio
Nov 2018 - Jul 2019
Next-gen browser and mobile automation test framework for Node.js
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:28 commits, 45 PRs, 84 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Adam contributed extensively to the test suite, focusing on the wdio-browserstack-service and general WebDriverIO testing. They implemented new test scenarios, including those for refetching stale elements, and integrated various testing strategies. The user also addressed bugs in existing tests and expanded the test coverage by creating specific test scenarios for edge cases. Their work involved significant interaction with test frameworks, mock implementations, and assertions to validate the framework's behavior.
test-automation-frameworkjasminemobile-automationcucumberperformance-test
abjerstedt/webdriverio
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
Next-gen WebDriver test automation framework for Node.js
Contributions:16 pushes, 3 branches in 5 days
test-automationtest-automation-frameworknode-jstestingpageobject
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