Adam Horowitz
Software Engineer at Freelance Musician
Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Horowitz is a seasoned Software Engineer with eight years of experience building full-stack web applications, currently contributing to Box's UI component library and shipping front-end features in React. He pairs a strong academic foundation—a CS BA from University of Rochester and a CS master's from Brown—with hands-on product work across digital media, iOS apps, and enterprise systems. At Box he has implemented practical UI improvements (preview sidebars, sortable icons, hotkey-configured grid views) that show an eye for both usability and robust component design. His background includes technology work at The New York Times and startup iOS development, balanced by long-standing roles in quantitative data systems and as a professional trumpet player—evidence of disciplined analytical thinking and creative collaboration. Based in Brattleboro, Vermont, he brings a multidisciplinary perspective that bridges design-minded front-end engineering and data-driven system management.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Brown UniversityEastman School of MusicBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at University of Rochester
Github Skills (13)
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
ui-elements10
media-queries8
css8
enzyme-testing7
jestjs7
testing7
jes7
enzyme7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
box/box-ui-elements
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
React Components for Box's Design System and Pluggable Components
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:63 reviews, 12 commits, 33 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the Box UI Elements React components. Their contributions included implementing new features such as adding a preview sidebar origin and creating an arrow sort icon. They also addressed a breaking change by modifying the type of a media query size and added xlarge size to media query. Furthermore, they worked on making hot key configurations for grid view and exposed and extended the select toggle functions.
react-componentreact-componentsbox-apibox-platformreact
ahorowitz123/box-ui-elements
Mar 2022 - Jun 2026
React Components for Box's Design System and Pluggable Components
Contributions:66 pushes, 49 branches in 4 years 3 months
reactboxs-boxdesign-systempluggable
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