Summary
Wade Hammes is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building customer-facing web products and growth-focused marketing sites. Currently leading Growth engineering at Rhythm, he owns the Next.js/TypeScript/Contentful marketing site, experimentation with LaunchDarkly, and enrollment UX to optimize sign-ups and retention. He previously scaled component libraries and maintained high-traffic WordPress properties at Skyword/TrackMaven, pairing front-end craft with LAMP dev-ops and accessibility best practices. As founder/CTO of a creative agency and a freelance web developer, he blends design sensibility from a UX background with pragmatic engineering to ship polished experiences. Based in Wilmington, NC, Wade is as comfortable prototyping wireframes with designers as he is deploying server-side fixes, and he brings an uncommon mix of agency-led brand work and hands-on growth experimentation to product teams. Outside of work he’s an active DC-area DJ, a detail that hints at his taste for curation and continuous collection—whether records or reusable components.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Business Administration and Management, General, Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Business Administration and Management, General at Virginia Tech
BS, Management with focus in Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology, BS, Management with focus in Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology at Virginia Tech - Pamplin College of Business