Adam Eilers
Principal Engineer at Northern Trust
St. Charles, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Eilers is a senior lead software engineer with over a decade of experience modernizing web platforms and driving microfrontend, event-driven, and cloud-native architectures for large enterprises. Based in St. Charles, IL, he excels at re-architecting React ecosystems—introducing Module Federation, route-based splitting, and PWAs—to deliver faster Time to Interactive and scalable, loosely coupled front-end systems. He’s led cross-functional teams through migrations from monoliths to service-oriented designs, championing observability with OpenTelemetry and pragmatic CI/CD for reliable delivery. A hands-on manager and co-founder of an R&D studio, he builds open-source-grade frameworks (e.g., Hive^io) for universal apps, CQRS/ES patterns, and efficient model serialization. Notably, he pairs high-level design and documentation with developer tooling (custom NPM initializers, design systems, Storybook) to reduce onboarding friction and accelerate iteration. He’s passionate about blending research and production engineering to push the boundaries of scalable, real-time web experiences.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Northern Illinois University
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Github Skills (26)
uitest9
page-object9
microservices6
js6
cloud-native6
backbonejs6
jquery6
javascript6
async5
json-schema5
serializable5
nodejs4
php3
docker3
cqrs3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
fnalabs/hive-producer-js
Apr 2017 - Mar 2020
The Hive^io Framework Producer service leveraging Node.js in Docker.
Contributions:2 releases, 39 PRs, 61 pushes in 3 years
dockernodejs
fnalabs/lib-js
Oct 2017 - Sep 2021
A small utility library of JS classes to build upon core features of the language.
Contributions:78 commits, 19 PRs, 21 pushes in 3 years 11 months
js
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