Cade Sarkin — Software Engineer

vance

designer clothing brand — co-owner & sole developer

AD VANCE designer clothing brand · co-owner & sole developer · 2021 — present Built and own the full-stack e-commerce platform behind the brand. React and Next.js on Vercel, with a custom Stripe preorder checkout — payment holds, order queuing and fulfillment tracking — plus a PostgreSQL admin dashboard and CI/CD. Adborne is the same operation under a new identity: a themed drop site built on top of the platform, with a retro-arcade interface — press start, character select, HUD — wrapped around a real storefront. Two sites, one commerce backend.

• vance-ad.com
• adborne.com

lore

worldbuilding-driven clothing brand

LORE clothing brand · new york city A label that builds worlds first and clothes second. Each collection is a place with its own story — FW25 The Silver Plains, SS26 The Red Desert — with a Metallurgy line running through them. The storefront is built around that: collections read as chapters rather than product categories, so the narrative survives the transition from lookbook to checkout.

• lore.nyc

dreamhouse

creative design studio, nyc

DREAMHOUSE creative design studio · new york city Site for a NYC design studio — portfolio presentation for a team whose work is the selling point, so the interface stays out of the way of it.

• dreamhouse.nyc

coming-soon

next client — announcement pending

Something is being built here. Not announced yet. Check back.

mozaiq

drag-and-drop dashboard builder with AI generation

MOZAIQ drag-and-drop dashboard builder · open source + hosted Point it at a CSV and describe what you want to see; it generates the dashboard. Then drag, drop and resize the pieces until it is right. No code required at any step. Open source, for local hosting. A hosted version is in the works.

• github

threejs-portfolio

3d graphics experiments

THREE.JS PORTFOLIO A collection of 3D graphics experiments built while learning Three.js — lighting, geometry, animation and shader techniques, each one small enough to isolate a single idea.

• live
• github

surveyai

land survey workflow app

SURVEYAI land survey workflow app · React/Next.js + Python Takes the paperwork-heavy parts of a land survey workflow and moves them into one place — a Next.js front end over a Python service doing the parsing and document work.

Engineer — SDKs, CLI & Platform — Fern

Jun 2026 to Present

• Built Fern Agent Automations, giving 100+ enterprise customers automated analysis and maintenance of their docs — one prompt plus a cron expression schedules recurring agent runs, and a one-time OAuth consent means every edit and PR carries the user's own permissions, not a bot's.
• Ran automation doc edits as durable background jobs that wake the agent when they land, so it reports the resulting PR and notifies the user over email or Slack.
• Ship features across Fern's SDK generators for nine languages — auto-generated idempotency keys, user-agent headers, webhook signature verification — raising the security and reliability baseline of every generated SDK.
• Extended the Fern CLI with dual authorization and package identity customization, giving customers control over registry credentials and published package naming.
• Shipped org-scoped data retention in the dashboard — deletion policies and on-demand purging for search queries, Ask AI conversations, preview sites and MCP data previously kept indefinitely — unblocking enterprise compliance.
• Led enterprise migrations onto Fern — Sigma's 1,500-page move off ReadMe, and Mailchimp's full docs, SDK and CLI migration across nine languages.
• Own bug triage across the SDK generators, CLI and dashboard — reproducing customer-reported issues, identifying root cause, and shipping fixes into the affected language generators.

Software Engineer II — Full-Stack — J.B. Hunt Transport Services

Sep 2024 to Mar 2026

• Architected and deployed microservices for the customer booking workflow in TypeScript and Java, enabling guest checkout and card payments for the first time and increasing booking conversion 35%.
• Spearheaded conversion from session storage to GraphQL, eliminating cross-tab session bugs, updating 1,000+ tests, and improving data fetch speeds by approximately 50%.
• Led Angular v12 to v18 modernization, restoring full test coverage and cutting page load times by 2.5 seconds.

Software Engineer I — Java/Full-Stack — J.B. Hunt Transport Services

Jun 2023 to Sep 2024

• Developed and maintained customer-facing microservices handling 100,000+ daily requests for booking, tracking and payment of shipments across North America using Java and Spring Boot.
• Mitigated 300+ CVEs and upgraded 20+ microservices to Spring Boot 3.x, hardening enterprise security posture.

Engineering Intern, Team Lead — J.B. Hunt Transport Services

Summer 2021 to 2022

• Led a team of engineers in Agile sprints and presented to 200+ attendees including the CIO; delivered 4x expected output on data-grid conversions.