Adam Thompson
Senior UI Engineer at MongoDB
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Thompson is a Senior UI Engineer with 11 years of multidisciplinary product and design experience, currently shaping the LeafyGreen design system at MongoDB in New York. Trained in Systems Design Engineering with a cognitive science minor from the University of Waterloo, he blends human-centered design thinking with pragmatic front-end engineering to solve the right problems. His career spans startups and nonprofits—co-founding a hardware venture, supporting product and UX at companies like Noom and Zynga, and building education-focused UIs at New Visions—giving him an uncommon mix of product, design, and implementation empathy. At MongoDB he has progressed from UI Engineer to senior role, signaling strong ownership of design systems and component-driven development. Colleagues rely on him to translate ambiguous product goals into polished, accessible interfaces while keeping scalability and developer ergonomics top of mind.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Honours System Design Engineering with Cognitive Science minor, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Honours System Design Engineering with Cognitive Science minor at University of Waterloo
English, French, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (117)
storybook10
ui-components10
testing10
filename10
sketch10
javascript10
dummy-data10
html10
angular10
typescript10
vue10
sketch-app10
svelte10
mongodb-atlas10
mongodb10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
TheSonOfThomp/Zed
Aug 2019 - Dec 2020
Realistic CSS Shadow interactions
Contributions:13 commits, 5 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 4 months
css
TheSonOfThomp/recipe-parser
Aug 2020 - Jan 2024
Contributions:4 PRs, 16 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 5 months
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