Will Adams
Knife Maker Developer at bushblade knives
Kirklees, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarWill Adams is a pragmatic full-stack developer and artisan knife maker based in Kirklees with eight years of software experience and a long-running hands-on business, Bushblade Knives. He combines practical craftsmanship and attention to detail with web development skills across the MERN stack, React hooks, and front-end UI improvements, contributing fixes and refactors to well-known tutorial projects like Brad Traversy’s DevConnector and Contact Keeper. Will focuses on improving code quality—cleaning up auth flows, useEffect dependencies, token persistence, and UI bugs—bringing a methodical, toolmaker’s mindset to debugging and refactoring. Outside of code he’s an outdoorsman and climber, a background that informs a pragmatic, user-focused approach to building reliable features.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (19)
hook10
javascript10
component-design10
css10
authentication10
user-authentication10
context-api10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
react10
expressjs9
localstorage9
nodejs9
html9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
bradtraversy/devconnector_2.0
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 228 commits, 94 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Will primarily focused on fixing syntax errors and refactoring the codebase. Their work included correcting errors in the routes related to profiles, updating the auth reducer and actions, as well as cleaning up useEffect dependencies. Furthermore, the user addressed styling issues, improved profile handling by addressing errors, refactoring and cleaning up profile functions, as well as integrating token authentication.
social-networkreactexpressjsmernexpress
bradtraversy/contact-keeper
Feb 2020 - Feb 2022
Contact manager using React hooks & context
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:81 commits, 38 PRs, 65 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Will's primary contribution focused on refactoring and improving the authentication and contact management features of the React application. They restructured the authentication context by moving actions out of the component and implementing a custom hook. The user also incorporated local storage for token persistence, enhancing user session management. Furthermore, they took steps to improve the application by taking actions out of state and component.
reactcontact-managerreact-hooksreact-context-hooksreacthooks
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