Summary
Adam Bloomston is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable, privacy-minded systems and leading teams through complexity at companies from startups to Airbnb. He currently technical-leads Project Lighthouse at Airbnb, designing rigorous, human-centered approaches to measure and reduce platform discrimination while navigating trade-offs in big data, security, and privacy. Adam combines deep systems design and backend engineering skill with facilitative leadership—teaching retrospectives, mentoring engineers, and shaping operational processes that scale. His background includes technical leadership in healthcare analytics and algorithmic trading, where a focus on reliability and continuous improvement delivered measurable business outcomes. Based in Santa Fe, he brings a rare mix of quantitative rigor (Math & Linguistics, summa cum laude) and people-centered facilitation to socially impactful technical work.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Linguistics, Summa Cum Laude, Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Linguistics, Summa Cum Laude at State University of New York at Albany
English