Hey, I’m Adam! I work as a software engineer. I have pedagogical, entrepreneurial, and humanist streaks. I’ve an instinct for organizing and spreading knowledge.
I’m at the peak of my preferences while:
I encourage you to check out the index, where you can find links to me discussing some of these things.
And if you want to chat about anything, found here or otherwise, do reach out.
Views expressed are not representative of my employer(s), past or present.
For a more formal treatment, see my resume page.
From 2025-07, I’ve been working at
I worked at
Customers use Yogi to help guide everything from R&D and acquisitions to marketing and brand strategy. We work with big
I was going to be a Production Engineer at Meta, where I was looking forward to learning from people with decades of experience orchestrating distributed systems at scale.
Unfortunately, I was
From 2021-09 to 2022-11, I built power tools for pet parenthood at
I helped design and implement integrations with Stripe, Twilio, Shopify, and third party pet prescription pharmaceutical vendors.
I also helped architect the dispatch algorithm to help Pawp reach its next level of scale, and an in-house
From 2018-06 to 2021-09, I contributed to the “refactoring” of healthcare at
I built tools for insurance brokers4, including:
Throughout, I was a cheerful optimizer6, spinning my corner of the org into maintainable and comprehensible shapes, minimizing burdens on engineers and operations.
Beyond my explicit role, I was an active member of the eng org, participating above-and-beyond in design reviews, intern/new-hire workshops, and so on.
In the “golden years of my youth”7, I’ve been:
In descending chronological order, I’ve lived in:
I was raised in an active boy scout troop. So, the “simpler pleasures” are hiking and camping under the stars. I’ve also grown to love reading, cooking and especially baking; climbing, running, cycling and skiing; horticulture, photography, travel, and spending copious time with friends and family.↩︎
Did you know Mars (the chocolate bar company) is actually a huge
I welcome any challengers to post evidence of a faster
Brokers collectively sell ~75% of medical insurance policies: an important and underrated corner of a particularly labyrinthine industry.↩︎
Building systems for broker commissions dovetails nicely with my fascination with double-entry accounting.↩︎
I’m the kind of person whose favorite diffs are those that strictly-delete code, and/or those that are generated by calls to sed and grep.↩︎
In primary school, we had a physics teacher who would use the phrase “golden years of our youth” to reference times as distant as decades and close as seconds. Whenever we’d learn a new concept, he would tie it to previous ones with this phrase, as in “to learn angular velocity, recall the golden years of our youth [three weeks ago], when we we were doing kinematics”. High-mileage, even by dad joke standards.↩︎