Adam Cahan
Program Director at Code Platoon
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolAdam Cahan is a program director and former software engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack web products and teaching others to do the same. Based in Chicago, he blends hands-on technical work—React/Redux, Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Elixir, PostgreSQL—with curriculum design and classroom leadership, having created and taught full-stack JavaScript courses and led intensive bootcamps for veterans and career-changers. He has shipped production systems across commerce, media, and enterprise analytics (ParkWhiz, Reverb, Cairn Labs) and has a track record of owning end-to-end features from backend flows to UX experiments. Equally comfortable mentoring engineers and coordinating launches, he has led volunteer and contract projects that required rapid scoping, team onboarding, and cross-organizational collaboration. Notably, he pairs product-focused thinking with education-first instincts—turning complex engineering topics into practical learning experiences that accelerate new developer careers.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at Colorado College
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (124)
reloading10
access-control9
trigger9
api9
vagrant9
rest-api9
angular-component9
java9
mongodb9
devtools8
virtualization8
graphql-api8
elasticsearch8
haskell8
ruby8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Code-Platoon-Assignments/git-workshop-workflow-1-school
Dec 2023 - Sep 2024
Simple fullstack flask school app for the git workshop
Contributions:1 release, 7 reviews, 10 PRs in 8 months
adamcee/internetcolortime
Jun 2015 - Sep 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 4 months
javascriptreactpassageinternet
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.