Adam Leonard Resume |

Work Experience

Developed SafeSeat, the first platform with automatic socially-distanced seat assignment, to maximize venue capacity by spreading fans across available seats based on per-event distancing rules
Lead a Scrum team that added end-to-end test coverage across all of our product flows and upgraded our back end applications from Grails 2.5 to Grails 3
Managed a contractor’s work improving consistency of our front end user analytics and redesigning two screens in our front end application
Represented engineering in discussions with other departments to supply technical guidance and institutional knowledge

Directed department-wide initiative to evaluate Javascript frameworks for the next version of our front end (research, presentations, final evaluation meeting) leading to full buy-in for move to React
Lead a Scrum team that rewrote our SPA from Backbone.js to React & Redux without stopping other development by migrating partners to the new version as features necessary for their programs were implemented
Provided counsel on design of new features, managed and implemented engineering-driven projects, and mentored teammates across the entire engineering organization

Developed new features from database changes in Postgres to Grails server code and consumer-facing Javascript SPA
Participated in code reviews to provide feedback on design and to share knowledge of changes in the platform
Triaged and fixed/responded to production support incidents as part of on-call rotation

Designed and implemented three features for ADP Workforce Now 4.0 Benefits functionality, from the entities and JPQL queries up the stack to the JSF-enhanced JSPs and Javascript
Improved support staff turnaround time for client issues by adding functionality to existing batch processes
Assisted in evaluation of new tools for ADP developers (IDEs, server plugins) comparing costs to anticipated productivity gains

Designed one and assisted in the development of several features for the ADP Workforce Now 3.0 Talent Management - Recruitment component
Guided three new developer hires, bringing them up to speed on our technology stack

Worked with senior developers in creation of several client-facing features in the Human Resources & Benefits application, largely through the use of our in-house UI library (similar to an early version of Apache Wicket)
Co-developed a virtual machine simulating our production environment to reduce developer downtime caused by environment setup problems
Co-developed new address formatting as well as the required migration to convert existing data to the new format for every stored employee

BS Computer Science – Aug 2004 - May 2008