Senior Frontend Engineer and Technical Lead
Adam Garling
I'm a Frontend Engineer and Technical Lead with 7+ years of experience building composable marketing sites for large scale organizations. I specialize in headless CMS architecture and modern frameworks like React and Next.js, leading teams from discovery and scoping through launch. Whether I'm shaping technical strategy, mentoring engineers, or partnering directly with stakeholders, I'm focused on delivering scalable, well-architected websites
Project Showcase
A showcase of some projects I have worked on professionally.
Geological Society of America
I served as the techincal lead on development of the Geological Society of America's maint marketing site. GSA needed a site redesign and migration that would bring together 15+ years of content. We built a modular site with Next.js and Sanity CMS. This site required an etensive migration of their academic journal GSA Today, and well as years of other organization content.
Next.js
Sanity
Tailwind
Algolia
Vanillasoft
I worked as the technical lead on the development of the Vanillasoft site. This site was built using the Next.js and Sanity headles CMS. One of the key features was localization support since the company is based in Canada and must provide their core content in English and French.
Next.js
Sanity
Tailwind
Localization
GSA Meeting Site
I served as the techincal lead on development of the Geological Society of America's annual meeting site. GSA needed a site that they could rebrand every year for their annual meeting. We built them a modular site with Next.js and Sanity CMS. They also requested a robust search that would stay up-to-date which was implemented with Algolia and synced to Sanity with webhooks.
Next.js
Sanity
Tailwind
Algolia
Deepgram AI Apps Catalog
The AI Apps catalog was unique project that I developed alongside the Deepgram marketing site. The project involved sycning data for approximately 5,000 AI applications between Airtbale and Supabase, and building the underlying API to source the data for the Next.js based application.
Next.js
Supabase
Airtable
Tailwind
Upkeep
I have worked as lead developer for close to three years on Upkeep. I have worked on all areas of website, and been involved with implementing many new features as well as continual site maintenance. I have had the opportunity to work with many new developent and marketing tools on Upkeep, such as ChatGPT, Twilio Verify, and CookiePro.
Gatsby
Dato CMS
Styled Components
Deepgram AI Glossary
The Deepgram AI Glossary is another resource that I developed on the Deepgram Marketing project. It is an extensive resource for machine learning, applied deep learning, and Language AI. It acts as a microsite with within the marketing site and includes its own internal navigation and unique documentation style design to efficiently house and intuitively guide the user through the content.
Next.js
Dato CMS
Tailwind
Clickatell
I worked as a lead developer on Clickatell's marketing site while on retainer and subscription. I was involved in all aspects of the development. Initially I was involved with implementing a redesign after a platform migration. Afterward, I took part in maintenence, new feature implementation, and the integration of various marketing technology platforms.
Gatsby
Dato CMS
Styled Components
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