Adrian
Barnes

Oracle's Resource Analytics was a brand-new first-party product on the OCI Console. We started with the fundamentals and built the entire stack - Frontend, Control Plane, Management Plane and Data Plane. We shipped a product, squashed bugs and measured its success. After 1.0, we evaluated what wasn't working, then developed new tools and documentation for the customer until we were satisfied that the product was a success.

• StakesFirst-party OCI product. Customer-facing. Subject to Oracle's enterprise compliance bar
• ChallengeBuilding a product that played nicely in a zero-trust environment, security compliant and worked nicely along with other OCI resources such as ADW, OAC, Policy IAM and was cross-tenancy compatible.
• StackTypeScript + Java-based internal framework built on Dropwizard, Jersey, and Jetty, utilizing JUnit and Mockito

In 2024, I joined an acceleration initiative to radically reduce lead times for data center development planning. We precisely identified process pain points, transforming the creation of multi-week network panel schematics into a 1-minute compile. After 2 months of development, we shipped a React + Python app to serve as a tool for internal employees.

• StakeData center bottlenecks costing millions of dollars each day
• ChallengeFinding the largest pain points in data center processes and eliminating them
• StackReact/Preact, TypeScript and Python

In 2023, I was brought on as part of a Tiger Team to develop experiences for a fast-approaching Oracle Cloud World Demo. I put together a UI for Oracle Health that takes several customer data points and compiles a solution for a physician to review. My demo, featuring all of the cues of a modern agentic interface, was chosen and presented by Clay Magouryk.

• StackReact/Preact, TypeScript and Python

I solo-built the Property Map feature, an operator-facing interactive map for self-storage facilities with pan, zoom, multi-floor views, and precise entity rendering. I elevated the edit mode for advanced resource manipulation, adapting Vue-Draggable-Resizable as a base and layering custom domain logic on top. I partnered with the design team on the interaction model and contributed support for the Python API layer.

• DomainSelf-storage facilities - irregular multi-floor layouts, custom unit shapes
• ConstraintsVue 2 frontend, no native mapping primitives, operator-grade interactivity required
• ScopeSolo build - design team partnership, solo engineer on Property Map

I joined as a senior IC on the frontend team for Hummingbird, Tenant's self-storage management platform, where component sprawl had become a major hindrance to development. I identified and led the solution: a shared component library packaged as an internal NPM module and hosted via Storybook. I served as the primary engineer with a supporting frontend engineer, shipped the library, integrated it with Hummingbird, and designed it for cross-project use.

• PrimitiveVue Draggable Resizable as the unit/object base - wrapped with domain logic
• StateVuex with persisted state to consolidate fragmented store patterns
• ComponentsLed the shared component library (Hummingbird) as an internal NPM module with Storybook
• PluginsDesigned a feature-plugin pattern so customers loaded only their subscribed features

Building Soberlink's identity platform UI as the sole frontend engineer, with end-to-end responsibility for sign-up, user information capture, multi-factor authentication setup, login, and account management flows. Our stack was Vue 3 (very early adoption), TypeScript, and PostCSS. The product shipped and remains live as a business-critical part of Soberlink's platform.

• StakesHealthcare-grade reliability. Court-admissible monitoring data. HIPAA compliant.
• SituationGreenfield Vue layer. Design system developed in parallel.
• RoleHired as the sole frontend engineer for the modernization effort.

I was tasked with standardizing brand UI elements and web components. I worked closely with the designer to build the design system from scratch, bringing their work to life as a component library with a Storybook UI for all engineers to reference.

• CadenceDaily designer/engineer pairing
• LibraryExtracted reusable UI into a private library + Storybook.js
• QualityEnd-to-end type safety, accessible by default, focus management for MFA flows

Built the public marketing site that helped support the company's launch to roughly 75,000 users and a $12M seed raise. Later launched the corporate site for sibling product ATM.com, now a business generating $15M+ annually.

• TimingMarketing site for seed raise
• AudienceContent team needed self-service editing post-launch
• MediaEnsuring web properties interfaced with social media sites, MailChimp collection, authored marketing and transactional emails

Acted as the lead web engineer at an early-stage fintech startup. Built and owned the company's marketing presence across product pivots in React, Gatsby, GraphQL, and Craft CMS with TypeScript, Sass, and CSS3 animations. Responsible for Plaid integrations on the frontend for bank-account linking and identity/financial-data verification flows in user signup and account-funding paths. Architected the Gatsby-based sponsored-content savings app where users took practice tests to deposit money into savings; mentored a junior engineer through the project. Reused the same foundation to ship a Junior Achievement partner build.

• MarketingCraft CMS + GraphQL - content team self-serve, Optimizely A/B baked in
• ProductReact + TypeScript + Gatsby for Learn & Earn - sponsored-content savings surface through Plain integrations
• ReuseSame foundation powered white-label sign-up funnels (incl. Junior Achievement)

Contributed Rails MVC and data modeling on Campaigns and Missions (user-facing earning features) and built significant operator admin tooling for managing users, campaigns, and missions on a microservice-based PostgreSQL backend.

• BackendContributions to Micro-services: Campaigns and Missions
• StackRuby on Rails, PostgreSQL, jQuery UI admin tool

Billabong Group ran multiple brands including Billabong, RVCA, Element, Von Zipper. As a lead frontend engineer I maintained and developed on a shared CakePHP + Tomcat e-commerce codebase with per-brand template overrides. The catalog was massive, the brands had wildly different aesthetics, and the company needed both deep visual differentiation per brand and operational efficiency from the shared platform.

• PlatformCakePHP + Tomcat with per-brand template overrides. jQueery, SCSS, Gulp
• BrandsBillabong, RVCA, Element, Von Zipper and more
• A11Y & SEOWCAG accessibility remediation across the portfolio. SEO + GTM rollout.
• TeamUX Team of DTC (Direct to Consumer) - PM, Designers, 2 Frontend Engineers, shared Backend Team

I led a near-complete rebuild of the RVCA site - a label whose visual language was the furthest from the platform default - pushing the override system to its limit. After that, I drove WCAG remediation across all four brands, set up Google Tag Manager and structured-data SEO, and contributed UI updates to Element and Von Zipper.

• Cross-CollabWorked closely with RVCA stakeholders to understand and implement long-awaited design updates
• A11YDrove WCAG 2.1 AA remediation across all four brand sites
• SEOStructured data, GTM rollout, Lighthouse-driven perf work

I worked closely with brand teams to quickly build seasonal landing pages: highly interactive experiences used for pushing sales campaigns. This was a test of how quickly good work could be turned around and deployed.

• Neutral InitiativeRVCA's Breakthrough campaign focused on gender identity and acknowledgment of the needs of non-binary individuals
• Billabong Gift Guide2016 and 2017 gift guides landers to drive seasonal sales
• MeasurementGTM + structured data - portfolio-wide marketing analytics

I grew the company's web development function as the need emerged. I built and maintained the corporate site, picked up PHP and SQL as the catalog needs got serious, and led development on the Magento storefront when DTC e-commerce became a strategic priority for the brand.

• FoundationBuilt and maintained the corporate Futures Fins site
• SkillsSelf-taught the LAMP stack as the company's needs grew

The Futures Fins corporate site, the Magento storefront, and twelve years of incremental product launches, team-rider campaigns, and seasonal collection drops. This is where I learned to ship - not at startup-cadence speed, but at the steady cadence of a real business serving real customers.

• Corporate siteBuilt and maintained experiences for new products and promotions
• E-commerceMagento + PHP storefront - full implementation lead