me, Adam

Hello, I'm Adam

Software engineer and hobbyist mathematician based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

I design clean architectures and build tools that make life easier. Currently working on Piper — a flexible database migration tool.

When not coding, I play piano and sing. Music is where structure meets freedom.

Specialties

Backend-first—building the systems behind real business products.

Backend & product engineering

Most of my work lives on the server side—APIs, domain logic, data models, integrations, and the plumbing that keeps products running. I build backends meant to ship, evolve with the business, and outlast the feature of the week.

Distributed systems

Core to how I work: services over the network, partial failure, consistency trade-offs, and the operational reality that follows. Distributed systems are messy—I design them to be understandable first, boring where it counts.

Scale & resilience

Real backends face real load—concurrency, queues, back-pressure, traffic spikes. I design for systems that hold under pressure, not clever demos that collapse in production.

Frontend engineering

I ship frontend too. Visual design isn't my superpower—but state management, data flow, component structure, and wiring UI to real backends? That's where I'm comfortable. Clear and maintainable over flashy.