At a glance
Leadership
16 months
Senior Engineer → VP in 16 months
Three title changes at one company while scope expanded from IC delivery to org-wide engineering, product execution, and technical budgets.
Technical
AWS · SQS · Nx
Production cloud & data stack
Owns Merch’s live environment: AWS serverless and queues, MongoDB and Postgres, Nx monorepo, and CI — not slide-deck architecture, what actually runs in prod.
2020–2021
Tesla manufacturing software
Software Engineer in Fremont: manufacturing systems integration, service layers on REST and SQL, and Angular front ends tied to the plant floor.
Business
~50 viewers / day
DaySmarter — live traffic
daysmarter.co: a public scheduling product with an API wrapper used to expose calendars across locations. Steady real-world use at roughly 50 viewers per day.
About
Current Role
VP of Engineering
Location
Johnstown, Colorado
Engineering executive who went from Senior Engineer to VP in 16 months. Currently leading engineering, product development, and technical strategy at Merch — owning cloud infrastructure (AWS, Lambda, Postgres, MongoDB), core platform delivery, and team growth.
Previously at Tesla building manufacturing software systems. Deep technical background across full-stack development and cloud infrastructure with a bias toward shipping fast and measuring impact.
Experience
Lead engineering, product development, and technical strategy. Own production infrastructure (AWS Serverless/Lambda, SQS, Mongo + Postgres, Nx monorepo, CircleCI) and delivery of Merch’s unified merchandise platform.
Career Progression
VP of Engineering
2022 — PresentDirector of Product Development
2021 — 2022Senior Software Engineer
2020 — 2021Key Wins
- Platform scope spans enterprise, creator, and supplier workflows — end-to-end merchandise operations Merch markets as one unified backend
- Promoted from Senior Engineer to VP in 16 months
- Own production stack: AWS Serverless, SQS, Mongo + Postgres, Nx monorepo, CircleCI
In Their Words
“Adam is one of the most dynamic and capable people I've had the opportunity to work with. He has consistently taken products and projects from ideation to implementation. Fantastic developer and colleague!”
“Adam is brilliant. His drive to learn outside of work and school has put him at a technical ability level beyond his years.”