Hello from Baltimore, MD 👋

I'm a senior software developer with a particular interest in full-stack web development, distributed systems, creative coding, and teaching. I like building real-time messaging systems and tweaking user interfaces.

You can reach me online at adam.bachman@gmail.com or https://hachyderm.io/@abachman.

This account is a scratchpad for personal work and learning. The majority of what you'll find here aren't finished projects, it's more of a rough digital analog of the scratch paper piled around my physical workspace. When I'm working on an idea in my head, I use paper. When I'm working on an idea in software, I use code.

Professionally, I am a principal engineer at Recurly mentoring engineers, building stronger teams, and leading technical projects for our large financial processing system.

Previously, I've worked with Stitch Fix on their GraphQL platform team, USCIS on tools for conducting asylum interviews, Adafruit Industries on the IoT platform Adafruit IO, MICA teaching creative coding, Figure 53 building a theater ticketing platform, SmartLogic on various contract projects for startups and enterprises, and an advantage blackjack team you haven't heard of.

Here's a few things you'll find in my repositories:

• A Ruby source-to-source translator to convert Rails MySQL create_table statements to Google Cloud Spanner create_table statements.
• Chrome Extensions: Timer, My New Tab
• A Ruby library for generating ULIDs
• A small small coding meetup in Baltimore (pre-COVID 😢)
• An anagram generator
• A pile of teaching materials: Intermedia Studio - Fall 2018, Interactive Spaces - Spring 2019 (and the big project we did), Creative Coding - Fall 2019, and Creative Coding - Spring 2020
• A multi-installation sensor network and data-driven generative bookcover design engine: MICAVIBE. Full story at karlssonwilker.com.
• 1-dimensional cellular automata
• A websocket library for p5.js and corresponding reference server
• A screen recording tool for p5.js sketches so I could turn all my Genuary sketches into tiny videos.
• Some operational transform exploration in Ruby on Rails
• a CRDT based in-browser almost-completely-serverless chat app

If there's something else I should list or something you'd like to build with me, send me an email at adam.bachman@gmail.com.