Adam Conrad
Engineering Manager at Meta
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Conrad is an engineering manager with 15 years of experience leading front-end web development, UI design, performance, and accessibility efforts for large marketplaces. Currently supporting the React org at Meta and running a boutique consulting firm, he blends product-facing leadership with hands-on technical work. He has held senior engineering and director roles at companies like Indigo and Catalant and advises startups such as Fisherman. A regular speaker and writer for software engineering audiences, he also contributes to open-source projects—recently improving an Elixir Slack RTM client—demonstrating comfort across front-end and back-end codebases. Based in Boston with an MS and BS from Brown University, he pairs academic rigor with a pragmatic focus on measurable UX and performance outcomes.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at Brown University
Spanish
Stackoverflow
3,209reputation
345kreached
76answers
13questions
twitter-bootstrap
top-5%
ruby
top-5%
webkit
top-5%
Github Skills (16)
slack-api10
elixir10
webkit9
testing9
ruby9
twitter-bootstrap9
bots8
googlebot8
rspec6
mobile6
ios6
memory-leaks6
android6
capybara6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
BlakeWilliams/Elixir-Slack
Aug 2018 - Nov 2020
Slack real time messaging and web API client in Elixir
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 2 reviews, 51 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily focused on updating and refactoring the Elixir-based Slack client. Their contributions included switching out deprecated functions, updating tests to reflect API changes, and addressing connection issues. They also implemented and fixed features related to initializing and reconnecting to the Slack Real Time Messaging (RTM) API and addressed deprecation warnings. Furthermore, the user updated the project dependencies.
elixirslackelixir-slackbotrtm
acconrad/phoenix
Jul 2015 - Jun 2021
Productive. Reliable. Fast. Most web frameworks make you choose between speed and a productive environment. Phoenix gives you both.
Contributions:11 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 11 months
speedelixirframeworkproductivereliable
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