Adam Pingel
Founder at TBD
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Pingel is a seasoned engineering leader with 15+ years building scalable AI, cloud, and data platforms, currently heading Open Tools and Applications for IBM's AI Alliance and co-chairing its Application and Model Tools workgroup. He blends hands-on backend expertise—contributions to notable open-source Scala projects like Spire and Scalding—with strategic product and platform leadership as former CTO of Global Platforms at LexisNexis. Adam’s background spans startups to enterprise R&D, leading teams that shipped award-winning AI legal analytics and accelerated discovery efforts in IBM Research’s quantum and hybrid-cloud initiatives. He favors learning by building, grounding abstract mathematics (category theory, algebra, game theory) in concrete implementations such as the Axle language. Based in Raleigh, NC, he brings a rare mix of deep systems craftsmanship, open-source credibility, and a track record of modernizing legacy stacks for rapid feature velocity.
15 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
CourseraUniversity of California, Los AngelesBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
681reputation
9kreached
1answer
6questions
Github Skills (26)
algorithm10
librarian10
json10
algorithms10
lib10
algebra10
sbt10
data-structure10
scala10
manage10
management10
gatsbyjs10
data-structures10
build-automation9
type-system9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
typelevel/spire
Feb 2013 - Oct 2015
Powerful new number types and numeric abstractions for Scala.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 5 comments in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily focused on optimizing and refactoring mathematical operations within the `spire` library. They refactored the `Monoid.sum` function using the `aggregate` method. They also modified the `FloatIsReal.ceil` method. This work involved changes to both core algebra functions and mathematical type implementations.
scala
twitter/scalding
Feb 2013 - Mar 2013
A Scala API for Cascading
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the `scalding` project by modifying the build configuration and source code related to library dependencies. They updated Scala versions, cross-built for different Scala versions, and replaced outdated libraries with newer alternatives. Additionally, the user refactored code to integrate Jackson for JSON serialization and deserialization. Furthermore, the user modified the build process with scripts and project settings.
scala
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