Summary
Adam Strickland is a seasoned software engineer and principal architect with 17 years of hands-on experience designing event-driven, distributed systems for fast-growing and enterprise organizations. He has led architecture and platform initiatives at companies like Hopin, Stitch Fix, Bonobos and Carta, specializing in Kafka-based messaging, Kubernetes service meshes, and scalable data pipelines. Equally comfortable in Ruby/Rails, Python, Go and emerging languages, he blends principal-level strategic leadership with day-to-day engineering work and DevOps ownership—evidenced by maintenance contributions to popular tooling like tmuxinator. Adam’s background spans founding startups and directing 60-person engineering organizations, giving him a rare mix of product intuition, data engineering stewardship, and pragmatic implementation skill. Based in New York, he’s known for democratizing technical decisions and turning complex integration challenges into resilient, maintainable systems.
17 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BA German, BA German at The University of Texas at Austin
Computer Science, Computer Science at George Mason University
German