Adam Argyle

15+ years of professional experience in web development, design, management and teaching.

  • 7 years at Google on Cloud and Chrome
  • 7 years of digital agency work for clients like Conde Nast, Kohls, Intel, Lululemon and GQ
  • 9 years public speaking and online educational content
  • 10 years of Open Source Software
  • 6 years leading design and/or development teams for web, mobile and chat apps
  • 1 year teaching web technology and design at the Art Institute of Seattle

Background

My extensive background encompasses all aspects of the web development life cycle, with a particular emphasis on scalable, high quality front-end architectures and scalable design systems; for beautiful, responsive, adaptive, and desirable user experiences.

I'm particularly adept at translating complex user needs into elegant and efficient technical solutions, all while maintaining a keen eye for aesthetic detail and user experience.

My software eye has been honed over 20 years to notice every little design detail, with the complimentary ability to go fix it in the code. There's nowhere in the codebase I'm not willing to go to ensure a quality user experience.

I've worked as a designer, 3D modeler, game engine architect, devops lead, or design manager, engineering manager, motion graphic designer, prototyper, and more; but mostly my time has been spent as a developer leading app development. With a career spanning highly visible public educational work at Google, highly visible web architecture for ESPN and Walmart, innovative leadership in startup environments, and a passion for education; I bring a unique blend of technical web expertise, meaningful product UX vision, and a thriving web community.

At Google, I contributed to projects that reached millions, gaining invaluable experience in high-performance, large-scale web applications and the particular user interface needs of the top 500 websites of the world. At Lively as the Senior Technology Lead of a cloud music startup, I led both the development of engaging user experiences across mobile, tablet and desktop and the multiple, resilient, back-end apps on AWS for admin UI's and front-end APIs, all from the ground up. While at Ratio, we built apps for any screen, making me fearless about development environments, truly focusing on whatever it takes for top notch user experience.

As an instructor at the Art Institute of Seattle, I taught designers and developers, showing my ability to clearly articulate complex concepts and mentor aspiring professionals. This educational passion also extends to my work as an online educator and influencer, where I consistently share insights and best practices with a global audience.

Education

Art Institute of Seattle
2008-2011
Bachelor Web Design and Interactive Media
Seattle
Highline Community College
2006-2008
Associates Web Database Development and Scripting
Seattle

Experience

Google (Chrome)

2018 - 2025

Developer Relations Engineer

Seattle

  • Spoke across the globe and at Google IO
  • Wrote articles and specifications that are now part of web history
  • Created a podcast with over 1m+ plays
  • Created 2 YouTube series with 100k+ plays
  • Interviewed designers and developers from fortune 500 companies
  • Consulted hundreds of teams on UI, CSS and front-end architecture
  • Led and / or collaborated with multiple developer communities and teams
  • Specialized in web layout, color, typography, animation, accessibility, UI component libraries and scrolling
  • Trained multiple AI models to be consultants to developers and designers
  • Trained an AI model on 100+ interview notes/transcripts for easy to mine deep user insights
  • Wrote code for Chrome that implements the CSS Media Query for when users have reduced data enabled
  • Put me at the forefront of the latest in web technology, as well as infusing me with a rich understanding of how the code translates through the Chrome engine and into a website, fully understanding the rendering process
  • Figma, CSS, JS, TypeScript, Astro, 11ty, JAMstack, SQL, Markdown

Google (Cloud)

2017 - 2018

User Experience Engineer

Seattle

  • Engineered next-gen prototypes of Google Cloud Console
  • Saw design systems at scale
  • Created VisBug out of user research, a web extension with 200k+ monthly active users
  • Figma, JS, CSS, Angular, NodeJS, Google Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD

Deloitte Digital

2014 - 2017

Engineering Manager | Front-End Architect

Seattle

  • Led multiple engineering teams for marketing sites, ecommerce and mobile applications
  • Led a design team to an innovative and winning design for Intel
  • Led a front-end team on a social network mobile application on the cloud with CI/CD
  • Led a full stack team through a mobile game hosted on the cloud with CI/CD
  • Was always counted on to add the spice, life and beauty to the designs
  • HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular, AngularJS, React, PhaserJS, MongoDB, NodeJS, Webpack, Docker, MySQL, Postgres, iOS App Store publishing, Android App Store publishing, SocketIO, JAMstack, Grunt, Gulp, Bash

Lively

2013 - 2014

Design and Technology Lead

Seattle

  • Hired and led a team of designers, mobile engineers, and web engineers
  • Inherited and enhanced AWS python and Go cloud applications with multiple front-ends
  • Optimized loading and front-end performance for the marketing, user apps and admin dashboards
  • Optimized data transfers, managed workers; our user could download the show they're walking out the door from
  • Photoshop, Sketch, Python, Go, Docker, Ruby, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS, Nginx, Wordpress

2013 - 2013

Senior Software Engineer

Seattle

  • "evidence driven design"
  • I helped develop UI prototypes that were heavily user researched
  • I saw UI undergo multiple types of user tests for effectiveness and usability
  • Helped prototype future UI for a Softbank startup
  • Sketch, HTML, CSS, JS, Backbone, NodeJS, Angular, React, Wordpress

Art Institute of Seattle

2013 - 2014

Web Development Teacher

Seattle

  • Taught "intermediate web scripting"
  • Taught "advanced web scripting"
  • HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap

Ratio Interactive

2010 - 2013

Engineering Manager | Front-End Lead

Seattle

  • Created apps for "any screen" (later even voice apps)
  • Made over 40 apps with the development team in one year
  • HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, Nginx, Python, Wordpress, Flex, ActionScript 3, WebOS

Ally Video

2008 - 2010

Engineering Manager | Front-End Lead

Seattle

  • Marketing, e-commerce and fulfillment site management

Projects

VisBugSep 2018 - Present

JavaScript, Web Components, Deep Web Platform API Knowledge, Open Source

  • Made a tool with 250k+ monthly active users
  • Listened to users and created a meaningful tool
  • A richly complex design tool that turns any website into an artboard in a design tool
  • Years of community management and open source contribution code reviews

Open Props CSSJan 2021 - Present

Open Source

  • Github repo with 5k+ stars
  • Scores well on the official CSS Survey
  • Years of community management and open source contribution code reviews

Personal WebsiteOngoing

CSS, TypeScript, Deno, JSX, Custom Scripts

  • 10k+ monthly active users
  • Runs like a custom social network
  • Content syndication via centralized community engagement via Bluesky and Mastodon APIs
  • Enhances UX to latest 2025+ web features like view transitions, scroll animations and virtualized scrolling

Additional

Development:
Expert UI crafter, expert on web technologies, expert on accessibility, expert in applying user experience rules, expert in prototyping, expert in layout, animation, color, scroll and more. Savvy running back-end applications, AWS or Google Cloud, docker savvy, cloud native savvy, capable of running multiple CI/CD pipelines.
Design:
Graduated with a BS in design and interactive digital media, Figma expert, Adobe XD expert, color expert, animation expert, worked closely with designers with PHDs and from Google, am always pixel perfect in my code recreations thus deeply understanding design choices and their impacts, savvy with with motion graphics, video editing, audio recording, 3D modelling, and much more
Management:
Led 2 small teams of designers, led and hired for 4 different engineering teams across multiple product areas, led product design for both the designers and developers on a full service design for Intel