Summary
Adam Holt is a staff software engineering manager with 11 years of engineering experience and a decade-plus background in training and systems administration at Whole Foods Market, now leading engineering at Saga Education. He blends full-stack hands-on expertise in Ruby, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Haxe, and C/C++ with operational experience across MySQL, MongoDB, GraphQL, and modern frontend frameworks like Vue and Angular. Adam is passionate about education technology—having developed math learning tools at Woot Math and now building scalable school-focused software—motivated in part by his own struggles with math growing up. He has a strong pedigree in curriculum design and developer onboarding from his prior regional trainer role, which informs how he coaches teams and builds developer-friendly systems. Adam holds dual degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Colorado Boulder and routinely bridges product, pedagogy, and engineering to deliver impactful classroom tools. He is notable for moving from retail operations into technical leadership, combining empathy for end users with pragmatic, full-stack delivery.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Montgomery College
Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
Diploma, Diploma at Concord Carlisle Regional High School