Adam Trager
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Drift
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Trager is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in Boston with 11 years of experience building scalable web and frontend systems, currently shaping engineering at Drift after joining from Happie. He blends strong front-end roots and HCI training from Rensselaer with backend and tooling expertise, evidenced by meaningful contributions to the lightweight spacetime JS timezone library—improving type safety, date formats, and nuanced time-difference calculations. Known for moving from hands-on development to technical leadership, he focuses on pragmatic, well-typed solutions that reduce edge-case bugs in date/time logic and UX. His background across product-facing roles and systems analysis gives him a practical sense for shipping reliable user-centered features at scale.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Game Development with a concentration in Human-Computer Interaction, Bachelor’s Degree, Game Development with a concentration in Human-Computer Interaction at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (16)
date-formatting10
typescript10
time-format10
javascript10
typescripts10
date-format10
typescript-types10
unit-testing9
google-inbox6
sass6
html6
css6
nodejs6
howlerjs6
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
spencermountain/spacetime
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
A lightweight javascript timezone library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 11 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Adam focused on improving the functionality and type safety of the spacetime library. Their contributions included fixing type definitions, adding support for new date formats, and implementing a new 'abbreviated' format within the `since` method. They also updated the calculation logic for time differences, specifically adding support for quarter differences and refining the behavior of `startOf` and `endOf` methods.
datetimecalendartimezone-librarymomentjstimezone-conversion
Nfinished/chartjs-adapter-spacetime
Dec 2022 - Sep 2024
Spacetime adapter for Chart.js
Contributions:5 releases, 31 PRs, 55 pushes in 1 year 8 months
chartadapterspacetimechartjschart-js
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