# Adam A. > Senior Software Engineer at Tools for Humanity Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/adama Building the real human network → toolsforhumanity.com ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Tools for Humanity Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Co-founded by Sam Altman and Alex Blania, backed by a16z, Bain, and Coinbase. Building proof of personhood as a member of the Fleet Management team - a highly cross-functional group creating tools to help monitor and improve Orb performance. ### Founder @ Dijla Ventures Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Founded an AR/VR startup focused on spatial computing, interaction design, & immersive experiences across gaming, tools, & narrative content. Shipped Exit Code: Immersive Escape Rooms on Meta Quest. Key Achievements: — Transitioned from part-time to full-time to build and launch Exit Code – a VR escape room collection for Meta Quest. — Serving ~10,000+ MAUs with ~75% click-to-conversion rate, 25-min avg sessions, & sustained paid add-on purchases. — Owned the full product lifecycle as sole engineer, designer, QA, and producer, driving delivery through self-managed roadmaps, OKRs, and iterative playtesting. — Built modular, event-driven puzzle systems with voice-based NLP & optimized Unity C# to meet real-time SLAs, sustaining 72 FPS on resource-constrained Quest hardware with a crash rate under 0.5%. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Crunchbase Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area Led backend initiatives across user authentication, notification systems, & infrastructure for a product serving 75 million+ users annually. Key Achievements: — Cut build time 50% (30 → 15 min) & doubled deployment velocity for a 75M+ user service by migrating the CI/CD pipeline from Jenkins to GitHub Actions with parallelized build steps. — Increased monthly logins 15% for a 75M+ user platform by integrating Google One Tap SSO into the authentication service. — Enhanced personalization logic in a legacy Akka-based email system (Scala, Kafka) by modifying payloads to downstream Kafka consumers; collaborated with partner engineers at Iterable to ensure compatibility & preserve legacy behavior, increasing timeline session time 11% across millions of MAU. ### Software Engineer @ Elemint Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Los Angeles Metropolitan Area A McCourt Global venture – Built fan engagement and ticketing tools for major sports communities, delivering full-stack features across mobile, web, & backend systems. Focused on real-time systems, SSO, & privacy compliance. Key Achievements: — Designed & launched a scalable, Discord-based fan rewards platform for Olympique de Marseille – implemented a modular social account linking system (Discord, Facebook, etc.) using OAuth flows, enabling users to authenticate & connect multiple accounts via SSO. Built a real-time engagement pipeline with a Discord Gateway bot & backend microservice to track user interactions & issue rewards, driving measurable community activation. — Contributed to a fault-tolerant distributed ticketing system for the 2023 Monaco Grand Prix: implemented a local-first PWA that served 300+ ticket verifications during intermittent internet outages. ### Software Engineer @ Capital One Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area Contributed to microservice architecture efforts within Capital One’s next-gen ledger platform, with a focus on Functional Scala, infrastructure security, & documentation at scale. Key Achievements: — Decoupled user profile APIs from a distributed ledger by translating monolith logic into Swagger-defined endpoints; enabled faster feature iteration & reduced cross-service regression issues through cleaner microservice integration. — Authored onboarding docs for a core service, adopted by a 150-engineer department to accelerate ramp-up. ### Software Engineer @ TigerConnect Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Jose, California, United States Started as an intern and grew into a mid-level Android engineer, building telehealth solutions for 100K+ MAU and proactively supporting the web team by delivering a critical feature used by hundreds of thousands of patients and care providers nationwide. Key Achievements: — Led key Android projects & proactively supported the web team by building a React-based mobile UI for secure patient-provider messaging – adopted by 3K+ US clinics. — Built an Android document scanner with Kotlin & OpenCV, enabling document uploads for 100K+ MAU. — Improved camera UX for 100K+ MAU by leading CameraX upgrades including pinch-to-zoom & manual focus. — Refactored legacy Android code using Kotlin, MVVM, & DI to streamline development & enable testing. — Boosted Android test coverage by ~8% & resolved hundreds of bugs across multiple form factors. — Increased web test coverage by ~3% & shipped key patient messaging updates, fixing UI bugs & improving clinician responsiveness. ### Junior Software Engineer @ TigerConnect Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 ### Software Engineer Intern @ TigerConnect Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Santa Monica, California, United States ### Undergraduate Research Assistant, Augmented Reality @ University of California, Davis Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Davis, California, United States Designed and built a mobile AR prototype in Unity using the Vuforia SDK to explore co-located communication dynamics in XR. Enabled QR code-based object anchoring and real-time spatial interaction on Android devices, collaborating with researchers to define app content and refine interaction models. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science University of California, Davis ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/adam-a - Website: https://www.dijla.io/ - Website: https://medium.com/@adam-a - GitHub: https://github.com/adam-a --- Source: https://flows.cv/adama JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/adama/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22