Gabriel Mcadams
Principal Software Engineer at Workday
San Jose, California, United States
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SeniorGabriel Mcadams is a Principal Software Engineer in San Jose with over a decade of experience leading large-scale web applications and frontend technical strategy. He has driven high-impact work at companies like Workday and PayPal, delivering revenue-boosting features and designing a GraphQL service that handled 20M+ requests per day with five-nines uptime. Known for mentoring and cross-team leadership, he repeatedly improves developer productivity through frameworks, build optimizations, and process changes that reduced bugs and deployment costs. Gabriel blends hands-on coding (React, Node.js, GraphQL) with product-minded architecture, often taking on the hardest systemic problems teams avoid. He’s contributed to company-wide standards—helping shape GraphQL best practices and even the GraphQL over HTTP sub-spec—and represents a rare mix of practical engineering discipline and strategic influence. Expect a collaborative leader who prefers measurable developer happiness gains as much as technical excellence.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (91)
graphiql10
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graphql-api10
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graphql-tools10
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ghmcadams/redis-utils
Feb 2016 - Sep 2017
Simple command line tools for Redis, including copy, delete, list, count
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 1 year 6 months
redisredis-clientdelete-listcommand-line-toolscommand-line
ghmcadams/vscode-lintlens
Jul 2018 - Jan 2023
Augment your ESLint rules in Visual Studio Code - Adds metadata beside each ESLint rule.
Contributions:4 reviews, 110 commits, 28 PRs in 4 years 7 months
visual-studio-codeeslintrulevscodevscode-extension
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