Adam Waselnuk
Co-Founder & CTO at Sword & Source
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAdam Waselnuk is a founder and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building product-driven web and mobile experiences, currently serving as Co-Founder & CTO of Storycraft where he raised pre-seed funding and shipped the first generative-AI social game to the App Store. He blends product design, systems thinking, and hands-on full‑stack engineering—having architected Shopify’s first public GraphQL partner API and led front-end rewrites that dramatically improved performance. Adam has a track record of turning prototypes into revenue-driving products, from taking Shopify’s Experts Marketplace to millions in transactions to bootstrapping multiple TTRPG products (one ENNIE‑nominated). He’s fluent in prompt engineering and custom DSLs for LLM-driven orchestration, and built Storycraft’s multiplayer networking layer and early AI-driven game engine prototypes himself. A builder who moves between growth, community, and deep technical craft, he also contributes to notable open-source examples such as the Shopify Node app demonstrating Polaris and React integrations. Based in Ottawa, he’s driven to connect people through playable storytelling and to push creative boundaries with emergent AI workflows.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Algonquin CollegeBA honours Music, BA honours Music at University of Ottawa
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Github Skills (16)
polaris10
nodejs10
javascript10
expressjs10
react10
redux10
ruby-on-rails9
shopify9
environment-variables8
html6
devise6
admin6
capybara6
ruby6
elm6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/shopify-node-app
Jun 2017 - Dec 2017
An example app that uses Polaris components and shopify-express
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:48 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily worked on developing the front-end of the Shopify Node app, implementing UI components using Polaris and React. They integrated Redux for state management, modifying the application's data flow and search functionality. Contributions also involved setting up the server environment, including configuring environment variables and integrating the shopify-express library.
expressjsjavascriptexpresspolarisliquid
AWaselnuk/AWaselnuk.github.io
Jan 2015 - Sep 2023
My personal blog.
Contributions:9 PRs, 130 pushes, 4 branches in 8 years 9 months
jekyllmy-personal-blog
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