Adam Sparks
Founder at Sparkstone
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Sparks is a founder and full-stack engineer with over a decade building resilient, user-centered web systems and local-first, privacy-conscious applications from Portland, Oregon. He taught himself to code at 13 and has since led product and architecture efforts across startups and enterprises, notably introducing Go to a greenfield reporting engine at OpenGov to boost performance and velocity. As founder of Sparkstone he focuses on peer-to-peer, offline-ready tools (including Liveframe, originally built for his own wedding) using Go, WebRTC, Yjs, React and SolidJS. He balances product thinking with engineering rigor, emphasizing usability, developer experience, and long-term maintainability. Beyond shipping features, he mentors teams through high-stakes changes and open-sources reusable tooling to improve accessibility and sustainable systems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Free Code CampComputer Science, Computer Science at Fairmont State University
Github Skills (200)
gundb10
vim10
robust10
cubing10
caddyfile10
api10
firebase-database10
conflict-resolution10
shutdown10
http-server10
nodejs10
mongodb10
indexing10
privacy10
headless-cms10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
odama626/tasks
Jun 2023 - Nov 2024
Contributions:15 PRs, 150 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year 5 months
odama626/dawei
Sep 2020 - May 2022
Lightweight state management.
Contributions:49 commits, 7 PRs, 45 pushes in 1 year 8 months
reactstate-managementjavascriptreduxtypescript
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