Available for freelance & full-time roles

Adrian Cole
Builds the Web

Full-Stack Developer & Creative Technologist crafting fast, beautiful digital products. From pixel-perfect UI to robust APIs — I do both.

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// about me

Turning ideas into
living products

I'm a full-stack developer based in San Francisco with 7+ years of experience building end-to-end web applications. My sweet spot is where design meets engineering — I obsess over micro-interactions as much as database schemas.

When I'm not shipping features I'm contributing to open-source, mentoring junior devs, and experimenting with generative art in my home studio.

TypeScriptReact Node.jsNext.js PostgreSQLAWS DockerGraphQL FigmaWebGL

Years of experience

Projects shipped

Happy clients

3.2k

GitHub stars

// skills

My Tech Stack

A broad toolkit built over years of shipping production software across startups and enterprise teams.

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Frontend Development

React / Next.js95%

TypeScript90%

CSS / Animations88%

WebGL / Three.js72%

🛠️

Backend Development

Node.js / Express92%

PostgreSQL / Redis87%

GraphQL / REST APIs89%

Python / FastAPI75%

☁️

DevOps & Cloud

AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda)83%

Docker / Kubernetes78%

CI/CD Pipelines85%

Terraform / IaC65%

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Design & UX

Figma / Prototyping88%

Design Systems85%

User Research70%

Accessibility (WCAG)82%

// projects

Selected Work

A curated selection of projects spanning SaaS platforms, developer tools, and creative experiments.

⭐ Featured

Next.js GraphQL PostgreSQL

Flowboard — Project Management SaaS

A Notion-meets-Linear productivity platform serving 12,000+ teams. Built the entire frontend and co-designed the real-time collaboration engine using CRDTs and WebSockets.

Live Demo → GitHub →

React Native Node.js Redis

Verdant — Carbon Footprint Tracker

Cross-platform mobile app helping users measure and reduce their carbon footprint. Integrates with banking APIs to auto-categorize purchases and score their environmental impact.

App Store → Case Study →

WebGL TypeScript Canvas API

Lumina — Generative Art Engine

An open-source browser-based generative art tool with 18 algorithms. Users can export SVGs and high-res PNGs, save presets, and share creations. 3.2k GitHub stars.

Try It → GitHub →

Python FastAPI OpenAI

DocuMind — AI Document Assistant

RAG-based document Q&A tool for enterprise teams. Ingests PDFs, Notion pages, and Confluence docs, then answers questions with cited sources. Used by 200+ companies.

Product → Blog Post →

// experience

Career Timeline

7 years of building at the intersection of engineering and product.

2023 — Present

Veritas Labs, San Francisco

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Lead a team of 5 engineers building the core product, a developer-first observability platform.
Re-architected the ingestion pipeline from a monolith to microservices, cutting p99 latency by 60%.
Introduced a component library used across 3 product lines, eliminating duplicate UI work.

2021 — 2023

Mosaic Finance, Remote

Full-Stack Engineer (Mid → Senior)

Built core dashboard features for a fintech app serving 400k+ retail investors.
Owned the real-time portfolio sync engine using WebSockets and Redis pub/sub.
Spearheaded migration from REST to GraphQL, reducing API calls by 45%.

2019 — 2021

Pixel & Co. Agency, New York

Frontend Developer

Delivered 14 client websites and web apps across media, healthcare, and e-commerce verticals.
Became the team's go-to for complex CSS animations and interactive data visualizations.

2017 — 2019

UC Berkeley, California

B.S. Computer Science — Graduated with Honors

Focus: HCI, Distributed Systems, Computer Graphics. Senior thesis on procedural terrain generation with WebGL.

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