Adam Holwerda
Senior Software Engineer at The Change Companies
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Holwerda is a senior software engineer in Chicago with a decade of experience building customer-facing web applications, internal tools, and CLIs across stacks that include TypeScript, React, MobX, Go, Ruby on Rails, and cloud deployments. He combines front-end craftsmanship and snappy database design with practical backend patterns—REST APIs, syncing, and deployments on AWS/GCP—to own multiple lanes of delivery from design through production. Adam has moved between hands-on engineering and leadership roles (including Director of Engineering) at The Change Companies, EverQuote, and Sudowrite, shipping features and maintaining large consumer and enterprise systems. Notably, he pairs a creative writing background with engineering, which informs clear product thinking and user-focused interfaces.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
English; B.A Creative Writing Emphasis, English; B.A Creative Writing Emphasis at Michigan State University
Spanish
Stackoverflow
42reputation
8kreached
2answers
2questions
Github Skills (33)
ssml10
table-of-contents9
npx8
tailwindcss7
static-site7
cli7
html6
react6
unirest6
api6
php6
backbonejs6
forum6
css6
typescript6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
AdamHolwerda/bloom-cli
Oct 2015 - May 2020
A command line utitlity to create a multipage static website from Ulysses export
Contributions:97 commits, 16 PRs, 84 pushes in 4 years 7 months
exportstatic-sitewriting-filestable-of-contentsssml
AdamHolwerda/adamholwerda
Jul 2021 - Feb 2025
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
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