Adam Higerd
Senior Software Engineer at Posit PBC
Greater Fayetteville, AR Area United States
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Top SchoolAdam Higerd is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building and maintaining complex systems across embedded, web, and platform domains. He has driven production software at companies from Google and Moovweb to travel-tech WhereTo, and now supports Linux implementation details for Posit Workbench. Adam blends low-level systems expertise—illustrated by his backend contributions to the notable mGBA Game Boy Advance emulator, including ARM/SM83 emulation and debugger stack tracing—with full-stack and infrastructure work such as PCI-DSS-compliant payment integrations and unified ecommerce interfaces. He’s comfortable leading teams and projects, from architecting policy and algorithm systems to mentoring interns and managing open-source efforts. Based in Greater Fayetteville, AR, he pairs a long history of cross-platform C++/Qt and embedded development with pragmatic product-focused delivery. An under-the-radar strength is his ability to translate deep technical refactors into noticeably improved debugging and operational workflows.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
University of Oklahoma
Stackoverflow
125reputation
6kreached
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Github Skills (16)
c1710
arm10
debugging10
debug10
assembly10
c1110
emulation10
assembler10
gameboy-advance9
gameboy9
qml6
pyside6
qt6
complexity-theory6
python6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mgba-emu/mgba
Jul 2020 - Sep 2022
mGBA Game Boy Advance Emulator
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:84 reviews, 35 commits, 26 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the mGBA emulator's backend, focusing on low-level system interactions. Their work involved refactoring and improving the emulator's core, specifically related to ARM and SM83 CPU emulation, by wrapping register files in structs for better organization. They also implemented data structures for stack tracing within the ARM debugger, and integrated stack tracing functionality into the ARM debugger, improving the debugging experience. Further work included implementing CLI controls for stack tracing and adding functionality to reverse symbol lookup.
gameboyemulatortilesetgameboy-advance-emulatorgame-boy-advance
ahigerd/dreamline
Sep 2024 - Nov 2024
Contributions:48 reviews, 16 PRs, 97 pushes in 2 months
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