Adam Drake
Staff Frontend Engineer at Chemify Limited
Prague, Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Drake is a Staff Frontend Engineer with 11 years of experience building thoughtful, high-performance UIs using React, TypeScript, Next.js and GraphQL. Based in Prague, he currently leads product and engineering for a flagship Chemify application, combining product ownership, architectural decision-making, and hands-on coding. He has a strong background in component libraries, monorepos, and CI/CD (GitLab, Docker, Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes) and a track record of improving UX while maintaining performance. Former team lead roles at eBay honed his people management, process improvement and Kanban-fluent delivery style across large-scale web and email systems. He regularly pursues personal projects and web performance experiments on GitHub, demonstrating a continuous drive to innovate and mentor junior engineers. His mathematics degree and early customer-service leadership inform a pragmatic, metrics-minded approach to product and technical trade-offs.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Portsmouth grammar schoolBSc, Mathematics, BSc, Mathematics at Oxford Brookes University
English, Czech
Github Skills (51)
cloudinary10
google-sheets-api9
react8
tailwind8
tailwindcss8
react-component8
react-components8
openai-api7
typescript7
material-ui7
image-slider7
nextjs7
material-design6
css6
react-carousel6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
adamdrake210/open-ai-beauty
Nov 2022 - Feb 2023
A project that uses the Open AI API to utilise the GPT-3 Engine to create poetry and images.
Contributions:40 commits, 43 PRs, 78 pushes in 2 months
gptopenai-apicloudinarynextjspostgres
adamdrake210/cherish-client
Apr 2020 - May 2022
An app to store valuable information about your loved ones, friends, associates.
Contributions:85 PRs, 100 pushes, 61 branches in 2 years 1 month
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