Adam Hueniken
Software Engineering Manager at Twitch
Old Toronto, Ontario, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Hueniken is a software engineering manager with 13 years of experience leading teams that build large-scale, real-time systems for interactive platforms. Currently he runs Twitch Chat, focusing on reliability, scalability, and enabling rapid engagement experiments across the company, after previously launching Channel Points features and developer APIs. A two-time founder in the gaming space, he scaled systems to process millions of images per day and supported over 100,000 streamers and 40 million fans through prior products, blending backend engineering, computer vision, and operational cost optimization. He pairs hands-on technical craft—mobile and backend development, CV pipelines with Tesseract/OpenCV, and autoscaling—with people-first leadership and a track record of shipping high-impact features. Based in Old Toronto, he brings entrepreneurial grit from Y Combinator and Next 36 experiences to enterprise-scale product problems.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorB.A.Sc. in Engineering Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, B.A.Sc. in Engineering Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of TorontoOntario Secondary School Diploma, Ontario Secondary School Diploma at Chatham Kent Secondary SchoolNext 36
Github Skills (10)
ruby-on-rails4
rails3
activerecord3
ruby3
mongoid3
database2
postgresql2
sharding2
saas2
aws1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
hacker-academy/hacker-academy
Sep 2012 - Mar 2015
Contributions:209 commits, 11 pushes, 11 issues in 2 years 6 months
Revision24601/StoryMaster
Oct 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:14 commits in 2 days
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