Adam Benzan is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in Toronto with 16 years of hands-on experience building web backends and dynamic frontends. He has led engineering at Foursixty since 2013 after roles as a freelance programmer and developer across Python, PHP, Django, Zend, and Java stacks, bringing practical expertise from jabber-based servers to modern web apps. Comfortable spanning the full stack, he pairs pragmatic backend architecture with front-end JavaScript work and a history of shipping production systems. His background in math and computer science, combined with a long arc of varied projects, gives him a knack for turning messy requirements into maintainable systems and mentoring teams through incremental technical evolution.
16 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Math/Computer Science, Math/Computer Science at Capilano University
Literature/Computer Science, Literature/Computer Science at Concordia University
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, 2nd Edition, by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman, The MIT Press.
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