Adam Pasztory

adampasz@gmail.com | San Francisco, CA

WORK EXPERIENCE

WorkDAO | Engineering Manager | San Francisco, CA (remote)        2022 - Present

• Joined as first hire in Engineering. Recruited, hired, and managed the core team of 3 full-stack engineers.
• Developed software platform for payroll, token grant administration, employment services, and benefits for Web3 companies.
• Set up infrastructure & application architecture (Digital Ocean, Postgres,  NextJS, TypeScript ).
• Established agile development processes, coding best practices, test automation, and release pipeline.

FourKites / Haven | Director of Engineering | San Francisco, CA        2018 - 2022

• FourKites acquired Haven in 2021. https://www.fourkites.com/haven/ 
• Managed up to 20 engineers building  patented supply chain management system. Customers included Unilever, Tyson, Rothfos, and TJ Maxx.
• Implemented data pipeline aggregating 100 million+ shipping milestones per year from RPA (Puppeteer), APIs, and EDI. Developed metrics and reporting around these events.
• Drove test automation and agile processes to achieve continuous delivery (Travis, Jenkins, Robot Framework).
• Led devops through security audit to address items found via Orca penetration testing for SOC2 readiness.
• Led infrastructure initiative to improve scalability and reduce costs across 6 AWS regions. Reduced hosting bill  by 60% over 3 months.

Renaissance Learning | Lead Software Engineer (contract) | San Francisco, CA        2014 - 2018

• Led team of 10 engineers to create  Angular components for Search, Kanban Board, Progress Reports, and other views for learning platform used by schools in 60 countries.
• Integrated services in JavaScript and C# to consume data sources, including MongoDB, Solaris, and Redshift.
• Drove agile processes with project managers, designers, learning specialists, and other internal dev teams.
• Coordinated with devops  to deploy features into CI pipeline (Lambdas, Jenkins, Terraform).

Idle Games (acquired by Sony/GSN) | Co-Founder + Engineering Manager | San Francisco, CA        2009 - 2014

• Hired the first 8 developers, and managed the front-end dev. team for our launch title, Idle Worship.
• Developed multiplayer games using C++, Python, and Django, supporting 100,000 concurrent users. 
• Oversaw A/B Testing to optimize onboarding funnel.
• Assisted transition from Flash game engine to JS, and native iOS and Android. Success in the casino gaming space (with Fresh Deck Poker) led to acquisition by GSN/Sony.

GlobalEnglish | Software Engineer | South San Francisco, CA        2002 - 2005

• Built web application with JavaScript and ASP to serve 20K+ articles, activities, and quizzes.
• Content was simultaneously localized into 10 languages using home-grown CMS.
• GlobalEnglish was acquired by Pearson Publishing in 2012.

LucasArts | Localization Supervisor | San Rafael, CA        1997 - 1999

• Started as QA Tester, worked on 20+ products, and was  promoted 3 times.
• Collaborated with devs and project managers to ensure worldwide simultaneous release of games such as Jedi Knight and Grim Fandango.

EDUCATION

B.S. Computer Science, San Francisco State University

B.A. History, Duke University

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Proficient: JavaScript (ES6), Python, TypeScript, React, NextJS, Strapi,  Angular, NodeJS, Express, Loopback, mySQL/Postgres, Java, Bash, Linux, AWS (Kinesis, Lambda, EC2, ECS, RDS, S3), HTML, CSS, Git, TDD, Docker, Android, GraphQL, Jira Admin, Github
• Exposure: Ruby, MongoDB, C, C++, C#, PHP, OpenGL, Prolog, GoLang, Kotlin

PROJECT + OTHER ACTIVITIES

CYO Athletics | Coach | athletics.cccyo.org        2016 - Present

• Running practices and games for youth soccer, volleyball, basketball, and baseball.

Singular Comics | Owner | singularcomics.com        2016 - 2019

Platform for selling high-grade comic books to collectors.

•  5 years of selling on Amazon and eBay (5-figure annual gross revenue).
• Launched website in 2018 using Shopify, to create new sales channels and unify brand as seller.

Stonewashed Themes | Developer | github.com/adampasz/stonewashed-themes        2015 - present

Simple, readable themes for Vim and ZSH.

• Distribution of personal themes, which supports 256 and 16-bit color mode on Linux, Mac & Windows!

Intel Galileo Blueprints | Technical Reviewer | packtpub.com        2015

Technical review, editing, and QA for book from Packt Publishing.

• Verified hardware configuration, and reviewed C++ code for a dozen projects using Intel XDK.
  

Pasz, LLC | Owner        2006 - Present

Software development consulting

• List of projects & clients available by request.
  

ACHIEVEMENTS + AWARDS

Top 33% and 391K people reached, Stack Overflow        2022

Top-Rated Seller (vintage comic books) with 100% Positive Feedback, eBay        2016 - present

Idle Worship - Online Innovation Award Nominee, GDC        2012

AAF National Gold “Addy” Award for Samurai Kittens Game, Cog1 & IFC – Independent Film Channel        2007