Adam Chlebek

Engineering leader. Operator. Builder of teams that ship.

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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.

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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.

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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 — Present

Director of Product Development

2021 — 2022

Senior Software Engineer

2020 — 2021

Key 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
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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!

Carson R. Hunt

CEO & Co-founder · Merch

Adam is brilliant. His drive to learn outside of work and school has put him at a technical ability level beyond his years.

Lath L.