Adam Fields

Senior Software Engineer

Boston, MA aef.me adam.elliot.fields@gmail.com github.com/0xFieldsy

Developer experienced with shipping production systems across e-commerce, media, and fintech. Interested in systems programming, agentic engineering, and blockchain protocols.

Experience

Independent Engineer · Sabbatical

2023 — Present

Researching, learning, and building

Remote
  • Used agents to train neural networks, run local inference, and perform blockchain analysis.
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Senior Software Engineer · Shopify

2021 — 2023

E-commerce shipping and logistics infrastructure

Remote
  • Built and owned inventory management services used daily by warehouse teams to track, receive, repair, and process physical goods across the fulfillment network.
  • Worked full-stack across backend services, GraphQL APIs, Postgres migrations, and React dashboards built on the Polaris design system, partnering with product, design, and warehouse operations.
  • Led development of Rework, a feature enabling warehouse operators to reprocess damaged merchandise on-site.
  • Improved SLA accuracy by designing Multiship, which tracks many shipments against a single shipment identifier.
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Software Engineer · Boston Globe

2019 — 2021

Digital product team for Globe.com and Boston.com

Boston, MA
  • Kept high-traffic news experiences fast and stable through the 2020 election and COVID pandemic.
  • Core contributor to the migration of Globe.com from legacy JSP app to a custom React SSR framework on AWS.
  • Helped rebuild Boston.com as a modern WordPress application with React and Docker.
  • Improved page performance through ad and static-asset optimizations.
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Software Engineer · Financial Recovery Technologies

2017 — 2019

Securities class action recovery platform

Boston, MA
  • Operated Node.js (Koa) microservices on-prem with CentOS, Oracle, MongoDB, and ZooKeeper.
  • Maintained the engine that ingested institutional holdings data and matched it against class action lawsuits to determine client recovery eligibility.
  • Helped drive three modernization efforts: auth migration from 389 LDAP to Azure AD with Ping SSO, frontend migration from Angular.js to Angular 2, and DevOps migration from Chef to Salt.
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Technical Recruiter · Jacobs, Cavium, Raytheon, Siemens, Blue Cross

2007 — 2016

Embedded with hardware and software teams

Boston, MA
  • Supported large engineering organizations, partnering directly with leadership up to the C-suite.
  • Self-taught web development and system administration on nights and weekends.
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Projects

blog

2023 — Present

A personal web log to document what I'm learning. Built with Astro, React, and Tailwind. Deployed to Cloudflare.

Education

B.S. Psychology · Bridgewater State University

2007