Adam Henson
Senior Software Engineer at Astraeus
West Orange, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Henson is a Senior Software Engineer and Frontend Architect with over a decade of hands-on experience designing performant, accessible web experiences and modular design systems. He has led frontend teams and architected high-traffic analytics and marketing platforms—driving SSR, component libraries, and migrations to containerized deployments—while also building browser-based apps that integrate client-side ML for real-time image analysis. A pragmatic technical leader, he translates ambiguous product goals into scalable React/TypeScript architectures and has been recognized for open-source contributions, including improvements to the popular react-toolbox component library. Based in West Orange, NJ, Adam brings a designer’s sensibility from formal art training together with nearly 20 years of industry experience shaping user-facing software.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Bachelors of Fine Art (BFA) - Painting, Bachelor's Degree Bachelors of Fine Art (BFA) - Painting at Johnson State CollegeBachelor's Degree Web Design and Interactive Media, Bachelor's Degree Web Design and Interactive Media at the Art Institue of California - San Diego
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
ui-components10
css-modules10
react10
testing9
enzyme9
material-design9
jestjs9
props8
prop8
loopback6
strongloop6
typescript6
redux6
react-hooks6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
react-toolbox/react-toolbox
Aug 2017 - Feb 2018
A set of React components implementing Google's Material Design specification with the power of CSS Modules
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 7 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily focused on enhancing the `IconMenu` component, a key element in the React Toolbox library. Their contributions involved implementing an `active` prop to control the menu's visibility and writing comprehensive tests to ensure the component's behavior. Further work included fixing a prop-type issue within the `Portal` component and merging code changes related to list component.
reactcssspecificationcss-modulesmaterial-design
foo-software/foo-react-charts
Mar 2021 - Apr 2023
Chart components used on foo.software
Contributions:10 PRs, 96 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years 1 month
chartsreactchartfoo
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