Adam Roth
Principal Engineer Head Of R&D at Rakuten Melbourne / Fillr
Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolAdam Roth is a Principal Engineer and Head of R&D with 13 years of experience leading full-stack and DevOps engineering across mobile, web, and infrastructure teams from Australia. He currently drives AI/LLM initiatives, novel client-side delivery techniques, and performance-focused middleware at Rakuten Melbourne/Fillr, blending research-led experimentation with production-grade engineering. His background includes CTO and architect roles where he set development standards, compliance regimes (SOC2, GDPR, ISO-27001), and automated deployment and monitoring pipelines. Adam is comfortable across languages and platforms (iOS/Android, Node, Python, Java, C/Obj‑C/Kotlin/Swift) and has hands-on experience with browser integrations, dynamic code rewriting, and form-fingerprinting systems. Less obvious is his mix of white-hat pentesting and feasibility studies for browser-level autofill, which inform pragmatic security-by-design decisions. Based in Queensland, he pairs academic training (M.S. Computer Science) with a track record of turning R&D prototypes into resilient, auditable production services.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at New Mexico Institute of Mining and TechnologyB.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Hawaii Pacific University
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Github contributions (5)
adam-roth/coastlive-app
Nov 2016 - Jan 2026
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 3 months
adam-roth/horizon-app
Nov 2017 - Jan 2026
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 2 months
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