hey, I'm Adam!
i'm a software engineer & educator based in Amsterdam.
🐿 squirrel — the best context manager for running AI coding agents in parallel;
🚀 launch — a terminal process manager for local development.
✏️ usp — Ultimate Social Poster, a terminal tool + CLI + Action for adapting social media posts for different platforms and uploading them via APIs and browser automations.
i was born in 2003 in Rostov-on-Don, Russia.
i started programming at the age of 6 with ActionScript 2.0, in the era of Flash games and animations. during school, I learned Pascal, web basics (HTML & CSS), and then basics of backend development with Python.
in high school, I participated in a couple of commercial projects. fun-fact: I've worked on an automation system for a large harvesting machine factory in Rostov (link, in Russian).
for another project — Pycon, a platform for checking programming homework — I was invited to test it on a real couple of hundred students of a local university.
some of my school projects are listed on my old website and on my new website too.
i never went to university. after high school, I joined Art.Lebedev design studio, the largest in Russia, as a backend intern.
during 2.5 years in the studio, I was a developer of Nikolay Ironov, an AI-designer (back then AI wasn't mainstream)
then I was a lead developer of Potokus, a technology that turns static media into an endless interactive stream, and Fokus, a next-gen slides maker. these two are now flagship products of the studio.
i also gave lectures on caveats and pitfalls of technical design and implementation of those products. a recording from HolyJS conference in Saint-Petersburg (in Russian).
after the studio, I worked on design automation projects with Dodo Pizza (a large IT company and also a pizza delivery chain operating in a dozen countries), and participated in a bunch of smaller projects
in 2025, i moved to Amsterdam and currently work as a software engineer at Teero, moving US dental industry forward with AI-native solutions.
i travel a lot (especially after moving to Europe, after being rejected for a Schengen visa three times). have currently visited 40+ countries.
and my instagram with travel photos
i'm a co-founder of Setka, an educational platform teaching designers about technology
i've coauthored a generative design course, and authored web development and applied math courses.
i also do ↑ open-source projects for engineers and other tech people.
welcome to my website: https://adam.ci/me/
feel free to follow me on X: https://x.com/adam_arutyunov
or call me in to speak: https://adam.ci/public/
you can support me by sponsoring my projects: https://github.com/sponsors/adamarutyunov
one more thing
sometimes i write music for video games🐈