Hey, I'm
Adam.
I'm a professional fullstack software engineer based in Chicago, Illinois. I love working with React / NextJS, AI, and emerging technologies . When I am not coding I train and compete in armwrestling and cycling races. I am currently learning Go and working on a fitness marketplace side project.
Work
Full Stack Web Developer
Impact Networking • Full-Time • Sept 2022 - Now
Chicago, Illinois
Lead the dev team to transition their tech stack from WordPress to React, NextJS, and Strapi. I also lead the development of Impact's internal marketing site at www.impactmybiz.com.
Presented best practices for the React and NextJS ecosystem regarding migrations, composition, and code conventions. I was able to migrate thousands of blogs and case studies from the old site to cut billable hours spent by the interal team by 300%. Lead all internal tool development and internal sites like the careers portal and e-commerce site.
Full Stack Web Developer
Steersman Company • Full-Time • March 2021 - Sept 2022
Deerfield, Illinois
Developed e-commerce based API with NextJS and python using Odoo ERP. Worked on multiple frontends for different clients, mainly manufacturing companies with a big e-commerce catalog. Created a chat plugin to intergrate with the ERP so companies' sales team can chat live with prospective users
Web Developer
Divine Design and Marketing • Full-Time • March 2019 - March 2021
React/Next JS, WordPress development for various manufacturing clients
Projects
Impact Networking
New and improved marketing site, migrating to NextJS and Strapi. The site is performant and SEO optimized and is statically generated. 60+ marketing pages and 1000+ blog and insight pages.
AI Embeddings Chat
AI project to demonstrate usage of OpenAI, Pinecone, and Vercel AI. Chat with AI that queries relevant data via vector embeddings. Check out the repo
Periodize
coming soon
Fitness marketplace and training analytics. Create and subscribe to detailed and structured training programs guided by exercise science principles and methodologies.
Education
Northwestern University
Full stack web development bootcamp, Chicago, Illinois
Northern Illinois University
BS Kinesiology, DeKalb, Illinois
Misc
Contact
The best way to contact me is through email or LinkedIn. Reach me here:
Email: arajchwald@gmail.com
LinkedIn: @adamrajchwald
Tech Stack
My choice tech stack for personal projects is GENERALLY (but not always):
- • React (Next JS)
- • React Native
- • Typescript
- • Node
- • Express
- • Postgres
- • Redis
- • Firebase (whole suite of tools)
- • Vercel
- • AWS
Some other tech that I love and/or have built at scale with:
- • Python
- • AI / Vector Embeddings
- • PHP
- • MongoDB
- • MySQL
- • Headless CMS (Strapi, Payload )