Adrian Bettridge-wiese
Director Of Frontend Engineering at Optro
Champaign, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdrian Bettridge-wiese is a Director of Frontend Engineering with 11 years of experience building and scaling web teams and architectures that serve tens of thousands of users. He blends hands-on front-end craftsmanship (React/TypeScript) with people-first management, having grown teams from single digits to multiple focused squads at companies like Vercel, Granular, and Optro. His work spans consulting, post-acquisition integration, and hypergrowth environments, and he’s led high-profile projects such as the 2022 Next.js Conference site that supported over 100,000 registrants. Known for surfacing and aligning the right resources, he pairs product-driven UX sensibilities with operational rigor to consistently hit delivery goals and high NPS scores. Based in Champaign, Illinois, Adrian’s unusual combination of a music degree and HR training informs a collaborative leadership style that values human connection as much as technical excellence.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MHRIR, Human Resources, MHRIR, Human Resources at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (140)
storybook10
hosting10
hybrid10
javascript10
wordpress10
browser10
react-framework10
compiler10
cli10
static-site-generator10
typescript10
ssg10
vercel10
nextjs10
server-rendering10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
vercel/hitbot
Jun 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 6 days
2wav/wpgql-nuxt-boilerplate
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
A boilerplate setup of Nuxt with content from headless Wordpress using the Wordpress GraphQL plugin.
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
boilerplate-setupboilerplatewordpressnuxtwp-graphql
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