Summary
Adam Goldstein is a CTO based in Portland, Oregon with 14 years of hands-on engineering and leadership experience building AI-enabled, data-driven SaaS platforms. He progressed through engineering roles into executive leadership at Spoiler Alert, where he has overseen teams, architecture, and scaling since 2016 and became CTO in 2020. His background spans Ruby on Rails, DevOps, and product-driven engineering from health-tech research apps and intelligent tutoring systems to logistics and sustainability-focused enterprise software. Adam combines a pragmatic engineering mindset with people leadership—managing teams, instituting CI/CD and observability, and mentoring engineers—rooted in an MS in Computer Science and fluency in Japanese studies from Kyoto University. A detail that speaks to his breadth: he has taken projects from academic research and randomized trials into production, demonstrating both rigor and delivery focus.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Intensive Japanese, Intensive Japanese at Kyoto University
BA, Computer Science, East Asian Studies, BA, Computer Science, East Asian Studies at Brandeis University
English, Japanese