Adam Bair
Senior Engineer at Known Decimal
Portland, Maine, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Bair is a senior software engineer with 18 years of experience, currently focused on Ruby on Rails, refactoring, and metaprogramming while shipping pragmatic web apps from Portland, Maine. He has held senior and leadership roles from CTO to Principal Engineer across startups and mid‑stage companies, blending hands‑on coding with product-minded architecture. A command-line and vim enthusiast who prefers plain HTML/CSS/JS and Linux, he brings a tooling-first approach to developer experience and long-lived codebases. His background includes scaling teams and systems at Openbay, Verica, and Farmstead, and he’s known for quietly improving code health and developer workflows rather than chasing the latest frameworks. Outside work he’s a “maker of things” who collects mechanical keyboards—an indicator of his attention to craft and ergonomics in both code and setup.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Seminar, Ruby on Rails Bootcamp, Seminar, Ruby on Rails Bootcamp at Big Nerd RanchPragmatic Studio ErlangAssociate's degree, Computer Science, 3.8, Associate's degree, Computer Science, 3.8 at Southern Maine Community CollegeBocoup jQuery TrainingCoursework, Computer Science, Coursework, Computer Science at University of Southern Maine
English, html
Github Skills (169)
windows10
hyper10
gpu10
linux10
rust10
opengl10
vte10
jailbreak10
bsd10
macos10
terminal-emulator10
qemu9
simulate9
desktop-application9
alarm9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
adambair/asteroids
Aug 2010 - Dec 2011
Contributions:54 commits in 1 year 4 months
adambair/adambair.github.io
Apr 2009 - Mar 2021
Contributions:30 commits, 4 pushes in 12 years 2 months
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