# Adam Strickland > Principal Engineer at Moment Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/adamstrickland Principal engineer, systems architect and engineering leader focused on messaging, distributed systems, and data engineering. What problem are you trying to solve? ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Moment Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States ### Staff Engineer @ Carta Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States ### Principal Engineer @ Hopin Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States Senior technologist and engineering leader tasked with engineering the next-generation of Hopin’s hybrid event platform. - Designed oversaw the implementation of an event-driven attendee behavior API for third-party integrations. Built out a chatops-based build-pipeline management tool to manage contributions of 200+ engineers. - Designed a distributed onsite application architecture based on Kafka, used to integrate the acquired Boomset assets into the larger Hopin ecosystem, and connected to a 200-pod Kubernetes and Istio-based service mesh. - Championed a collaborative assessment- and decision-making process for democratizing technology choices throughout engineering. - Prototyped a next-gen event-based architecture using AWS Lambda and Kafka. - Contributed to codebases across the org in Ruby/Rails, Python, Node, Rust, Clojure and Terraform. ### Principal Architect @ Bonobos Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | New York, United States Principal technologist for a 30-person engineering team overseeing both application and data engineering. - Designed an event-based microservice architecture to integrate a number of heterogeneous applications into a distributed, highly-available e-commerce ecosystem. - Responsible for managerial oversight of data engineering, championing the use of data as a strategic asset. - Application technology stack is Ruby/JavaScript/Swift, alongside Kafka and Postgres. - Data stack is Python, DBT/Equalum/Singer, Snowflake and Spark. ### Principal Engineer @ Stitch Fix Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Senior member of engineering at scale, supporting a $4bn company with millions of active clients. - Principal responsible for enabling multiple forward-facing application ecosystems to support an international expansion. - Designed the transition of the organization’s messaging backbone from RabbitMQ to Kafka. - Technology stack includes Ruby, Golang, and JavaScript (React), as well as PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, and Kafka, running on an AWS container infrastructure. ### Director, Architecture @ WellMatch Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Dallas/Fort Worth Area Chief technologist for a 60-person engineering team and member of senior leadership. - Responsible for migrating the company’s SaaS solution from a monolithic Rails application to an event-based microservice architecture in Ruby and Elixir underpinned by RabbitMQ and backed by a Lambda data architecture using Apache Spark. - Established and managed an external API for diverse client applications, including iOS, Android and React frontends. - Oversaw the creation of a large-scale data analytics solution using supervised-learning algorithms to forecast healthcare procedure costs; integrated same into runtime architecture for use at scale. ### Founder, CTO @ Molecule Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Dallas, TX CTO, lead engineer, system administrator, decision maker, agile coach, subject matter expert and product manager. - Built an NLP-based energy deal capture and risk management SaaS application. - Designed and implemented Black-76 and Monte Carlo models, for pricing and valuation, respectively. - Built the team and the application from the ground up using Ruby on Rails, Clojure, EmberJS, MongoDB and RabbitMQ. ### Principal Consultant @ Improving Enterprises Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 Delivery leader for a regional consulting company. - Managed the delivery of FedEx’s MyShipRush initiative, integrated into FedEx’s systems architecture. - Constructed using Java, Spring-MVC, and JavascriptMVC. ### Founder @ Mockingbird Software Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 Built and marketed several iOS applications, primarily targeted towards the legal industry. ### Senior Manager @ SunGard Global Services Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 Account principal and application architect. - Account director to BenefitMall. - Oversaw a distributed, 20-member project delivery team. - Designed the distributed, event-based service architecture using C#, .Net 4.0, MS SQL Server and NServiceBus. ### Founder @ Forward Echo, LLC Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 Principal and chief developer consulting to Dallas startups. - Mockingbird Software: a suite of iOS applications for the legal community. - iScratcher: a multi-platform mobile gaming system, including Android and iOS clients and a Ruby on Rails back-end. - Flexvite: a flexible event planning SaaS web application, using Python and Google App Engine. ### Senior Manager @ Sungard Consulting Services Jan 2000 – Jan 2008 Senior Consultant, advancing to Senior Manager. - Created a custom asset management and power scheduling using Java and Apache ServiceMix. - System architect for JPMC’s equity bank next-generation global trading infrastructure. - Lead developer for Staples Easy Rebates, the first paperless rebate system and its back-office complement, using Java and Struts. - Senior engineer, responsible for designing multiple back-office and integration components for a CLEC system. - Senior engineer to a rail logistics startup. ### Developer @ Fu Associates Jan 1998 – Jan 2000 | Arlington, VA Junior developer and systems administrator for a ~100-employee company. - Server sysadmin and network administrator. - Managed desktop support team. - Apprenticed as a junior developer to multiple projects/clients, using ASP, VB, and SSJS. ## Education ### BA in German The University of Texas at Austin ### Computer Science George Mason University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/warriorpoet - Website: https://github.com/adamstrickland - Website: http://www.moleculesoftware.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/adamstrickland JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/adamstrickland/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05