Adam Slesinger
Technical Director at Fortis Games
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Slesinger is a technical director and seasoned technology leader with 25+ years of experience building scalable, high-performance digital products across gaming, social networking, mobile, and live streaming. He combines hands-on full-stack development (JavaScript, C#, Python, PHP, Node.js, React, Unity) with strategic leadership—founding and scaling platforms that handled 100K concurrent users and processed millions of transactions. As CTO and founder at Captain.tv he architected microservices, payment systems, and automated CI/CD and testing practices that directly supported revenue and creator payouts. At Disney Interactive he led teams behind top-ranked mobile games, invented faster Unity workflows, and scaled engineering orgs while mentoring managers and engineers. Known for pragmatic engineering decisions that turn hour-long operations into sub-second routines, he blends entrepreneurial grit with enterprise discipline. Based in Greater Boston, he pairs deep technical craftsmanship with a track record of shipping measurable business impact.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Management Science & Information Systems, Management Science & Information Systems at University of Rhode Island
German
Github Skills (21)
twitch10
countdown10
timer10
alerts10
obs10
countdown-timer10
stream10
streaming10
python9
youtube9
react9
obs-studio9
javascript8
aws5
nodejs4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
breadweb/extralife-helper
Nov 2017 - Aug 2022
The Extra Life Helper is a web app that can be used by Extra Life participants and teams to display their fundraising progress. Works in OBS and any modern browser. Features donation alerts, an event countdown timer, a timer for hours played, and multiple themes and display options.
Contributions:10 releases, 1 review, 93 commits in 4 years 10 months
youtubeparticipantsstreamreal-timejavascript
breadweb/diamondtouch
Dec 2015 - Mar 2024
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 8 years 4 months
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