Bram Adams
Co-Founder at Stenography
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBram Adams is a New York–based software engineer and founder with 12 years of experience building developer-focused products, from media supply-chain services at HBO to AI-assisted tooling and startups. He co-founded Your Commonbase to turn personal library science research into software and founded Stenography, an automatic code-commenting tool that reached #1 on Product Hunt and shipped as a VS Code app and API. As an OpenAI Developer Ambassador and former researcher, he helps founders integrate GPT models and has hands-on experience implementing OpenAI APIs in open-source projects like OthersideAI/chronology. Bram blends backend engineering (Java, Node, microservices) with thoughtful developer UX and education work from his Algolia advocacy and engineering roles. Known for pragmatic problem-solving—introducing Rx/functional patterns and Swagger to production microservices—he pairs entrepreneurial drive with a researcher’s curiosity about information organization.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of RochesterMacquarie University
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Github Skills (12)
openai-api10
api10
python10
apidoc10
asynchronous8
asyncio8
async8
nlp7
mongoose6
nodejs6
javascript6
mongodb6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
OthersideAI/chronology
Dec 2020 - Feb 2021
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 10 pushes, 13 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Bram primarily focused on setting up and configuring the Chronology project, adding API keys, and building the package with Twine. They implemented core functionalities related to the OpenAI API, including setting up the API key and defining functions for completions and search operations. Additionally, the user made code adjustments related to handling multiple responses from the GPT-3 API and improving logging.
StenographyDev/autopilot-vsc
Oct 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:61 commits, 2 PRs, 57 pushes in 3 months
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