Adam M
Software Engineer at Mercari, Inc.
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam M is a pragmatic software engineer with 15 years’ experience, currently building AI/LLM-driven features for Mercari’s marketplace—shipping chat-driven search, listing metadata generation, seller-reply automation, image-first listing flows, and a company-wide MVP for image-based category prediction. He combines product-minded ML integration (prompt/workflow design, evaluation, UX) with production engineering concerns like latency, cost control, and robustness to bad inputs. Previously he built large-scale prediction pipelines and CI/generative testing practices using Google Cloud, Apache Beam, and Kubeflow, and earlier worked as a full-stack developer on interactive installations and Clojure(script) UI libraries. Based in Tokyo, he writes about Clojure, Emacs, and LLM tooling at poyo.co and publishes code as minikomi, blending research curiosity with hands-on delivery. A detail that often surprises colleagues: he moved from biotechnology studies into shipping complex software systems, bringing a disciplined, experimental approach to productizing ML.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Biotechnology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biotechnology at University of Adelaide
Github Skills (3)
html10
web-development9
javascript8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
minikomi/Bootstrap-Form-Builder
Jun 2012 - May 2017
Web app for drag drop building bootstrap forms.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:143 commits, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the frontend development of the form builder web application. Their commits show an understanding of styling and HTML elements, focusing on Bootstrap CSS and the structure of HTML components. The user implemented a text area input, and added GitHub links, indicating a focus on UI elements and basic web page structure.
bootstrap4form-buildercssbuilderformbuilder
minikomi/tumblrsearch-reframe
May 2015 - Oct 2021
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 5 months
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