Senior Full-Stack Engineer with 6+ years building and scaling high-traffic MERN applications across healthtech, SaaS, and related IT fields. Expert in architecting performant React UIs, RESTful and GraphQL APIs, real-time systems with Socket.io, and cloud-native deployments on AWS. Known for improving API performance, mentoring teams, and shipping production-grade code supporting hundreds of thousands of concurrent users.

Adam Martin

Senior Full-Stack Engineer with 6+ years building and scaling high-traffic MERN applications across healthtech, SaaS, and related IT fields. Expert in architecting performant React UIs, RESTful and GraphQL APIs, real-time systems with Socket.io, and cloud-native deployments on AWS. Known for improving API performance, mentoring teams, and shipping production-grade code supporting hundreds of thousands of concurrent users.

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Senior Full-Stack Engineer with 6+ years building and scaling high-traffic MERN applications across healthtech, SaaS, and related IT fields. Expert in architecting performant React UIs, RESTful and GraphQL APIs, real-time systems with Socket.io, and cloud-native deployments on AWS.

Known for improving API performance, mentoring teams, and shipping production-grade code supporting hundreds of thousands of concurrent users.

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Language

English
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Work Experience

Senior Full Stack Engineer at ByteSparkles
April 1, 2022 - Present
Engineered and scaled MERN-stack platforms for fintech and health verticals, reducing average page load time by 38% using SSR with Next.js and code-splitting. Re-architected a monolithic Node.js API into domain-driven microservices behind an AWS API Gateway, cutting P95 response time from 820 ms to 190 ms. Built real-time collaboration using Socket.io and Redis Pub/Sub with zero message loss. Migrated from REST to GraphQL (Apollo) to reduce over-fetching by 55% and eliminate redundant frontend calls. Mentored junior developers, introduced trunk-based development with feature flags, improved testing to 92% coverage, and reduced production regressions by integrating Playwright E2E tests into CI.
Senior Full-Stack Engineer at ByteSparkles
April 1, 2022 - Present
Engineered and scaled MERN-stack platforms serving monthly active users in fintech and health verticals; reduced average page load time by 38% through SSR with Next.js and aggressive code-splitting. Re-architected a monolithic Node.js API into domain-driven microservices behind an API Gateway (AWS), cutting P95 response time from 820 ms to 190 ms. Built real-time collaboration features using Socket.io and Redis Pub/Sub, enabling concurrent sessions with zero message loss. Led migration from REST to GraphQL (Apollo Server/Client) reducing over-fetching by 55% and eliminating 40% of redundant API calls on frontend. Mentored 5 junior developers, introduced trunk-based development with feature flags (LaunchDarkly), and set up Storybook component library adopted across 3 product squads. Achieved 92% unit/integration test coverage with Jest and React Testing Library; integrated Playwright E2E tests into CI, reducing production regressions by 70%.
Senior Software Engineer at Hims & Hers Health
January 1, 2020 - March 1, 2022
Built HIPAA-compliant patient-facing React dashboards for telehealth consultations, integrating Stripe for subscriptions and Twilio Video for in-browser video visits. Developed a Node.js/Express microservice for asynchronous prescription fulfillment using AWS SQS and Lambda. Optimized MongoDB aggregation pipelines and added compound indexes, reducing dashboard query time by 64%. Implemented OAuth 2.0 + JWT with refresh-token rotation and RBAC across six user roles. Shipped multiple A/B tests with cross-functional product/design collaboration, driving a lift in subscription conversion rate.
Full-Stack Engineer at Hims & Hers Health
January 1, 2020 - March 1, 2022
Built HIPAA-compliant patient-facing React dashboards for telehealth consultations, integrating Stripe for subscriptions and Twilio Video for in-browser visits. Developed Node.js/Express microservice for asynchronous prescription fulfillment using AWS SQS + Lambda. Optimized MongoDB aggregation pipelines and added compound indexes, cutting dashboard query time by 64% for patient data. Implemented OAuth 2.0 + JWT authentication with refresh-token rotation and RBAC across 6 user roles. Collaborated cross-functionally to ship 12 A/B tests in 6 months, driving a 17% lift in subscription conversions.
Software Engineer at Shopify
December 1, 2017 - December 1, 2019
Contributed to Shopify's merchant dashboard using React and Python APIs, delivering features used by 1M+ merchants globally. Built reusable Polaris design-system components adopted by 4 internal teams, reducing frontend development time by 25%. Designed webhook delivery infrastructure in Node.js with exponential back-off retries achieving 99.98% delivery reliability. Optimized Liquid storefront rendering and improved Lighthouse scores from 58 to 91 for flagship theme. Participated in on-call rotations, resolved 30+ production incidents, and authored 15 runbooks improving MTTR.

Education

MS in Computer Science at US Berkeley
September 1, 2015 - October 1, 2017
BS in Computer Science at University of Minnesota Twin Cities
September 1, 2014 - October 1, 2017

Qualifications

AWS Certified Developer – Associate
January 11, 2030 - June 16, 2026
Meta Front-End Developer Certificate
January 11, 2030 - June 16, 2026
Node.js Application Development (OpenJS Foundation)
January 11, 2030 - June 16, 2026
AWS Certified Developer - Associate
January 11, 2030 - July 28, 2026
Meta Front-End Developer Certificate
January 11, 2030 - July 28, 2026
Node.js Application Development
January 11, 2030 - July 28, 2026
OpenJS Foundation
January 11, 2030 - July 28, 2026

Industry Experience

Healthcare, Financial Services, Software & Internet, Professional Services, Other