Adam Stallard
Founder at SwiftDemand
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Stallard is a founder and systems architect with 15 years of experience building distributed systems and privacy-preserving identity infrastructure from Redmond, Washington. He leads BrightID, a social identity network enabling one-account-per-person verification, and directs Hedge for Humanity and SwiftDemand—projects applying decentralized technology to universal basic income and global dividend experiments. Previously he built scalable data pipelines and search/indexing systems at CoStar using Hadoop, HBase, Solr and ZooKeeper, and earlier founded multiple startups delivering full-stack and social web products. A hands-on engineer, he contributes back-end fixes to open-source projects such as a BrightID Discord bot, demonstrating attention to protocol details like deep-link formats. His work consistently blends cryptographically-minded distributed design with practical production engineering, aiming for real-world social impact. He pairs deep technical breadth with a long track record of shipping unconventional, mission-driven systems.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of New MexicoBrigham Young University
German, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
discord-py10
javascript10
discord-bot10
discord-js10
api-design9
nodejs9
path-manipulation8
url-parsing8
git6
eclipse-plugin6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ShenaniganDApp/brightid-discord-bot
Sep 2020 - Sep 2021
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 14 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Adam primarily worked on the back-end of the BrightID Discord bot, specifically focusing on the integration with the BrightID verification process. Their contributions included fixing bugs related to deep link generation, adding a missing segment to the URL, and updating the deep link format to use `brightid://` instead of `https://`. These changes involved modifications to the `src/handlers/verify.js` and `src/endpoints.js` files, indicating work on the bot's core functionality. The user also merged branches to maintain code integrity.
adamstallard/modest
Jul 2012 - Nov 2013
Contributions:146 commits in 1 year 4 months
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