Adam Juhasz

Player/Coach engineering leader focusing on scaling teams through developer efficiency and DX not just team size.

Intro

I began as an embedded software engineer focusing on lasers for ophthalmology and have since become the leader of an engineering department. Along the way, I started two startups and gained experience in various fields; including biotech, fashion, data, science, and fintech.

Currently

Currently a player/coach (20-30% spent coding) leader of the engineering org at Farther Finance, a wealth-tech platform and RIA (Registered Investment Advisor).

Farther Finance

Head of Engineering — helping scale the engineering team from series A to series C and beyond.

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Leadership level

Transitioned teams from tech-stack oriented to full-stack domain-based ones

Scaled the team size 2x

Planned & executed a Scala to Typescript code transition

Increased platform reliability from 2-3 incident/wk to <1 incident/mo

Built out the team foundations around hiring, career ladders, and performance growth

Instituted a culture of long-form technical thinking/design

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Staff level engineering work

Increased org-wide developer productivity by creating a custom Typescript web framework

Built a new portfolio manager based on functional programming principles

Developed engineering-wide code/platform standards

2022 - present

2018 - 2022

Pay Tgthr

Technical Co-Founder — Developed the initial business plan, executed agreements with relevant banks & fintechs, and then wrote the initial backend, web app, and mobile app of for a debit-card issuing startup.

2017 - 2018

Crowd Flower

Senior Software Engineer — Worked on the web app of a data labeling platform while introducing many functional programming idioms to the codebase

2015 - 2017

Fynd

Technical Co-Founder — Co-developed the initial business plans for a graph / ML based fashion search engine and then wrote the initial MVP of the backend and web-app.

2012 - 2014

Cutera

Senior Software Engineer — Wrote embedded controller code for multiple medical lasers

2008 - 2012

LenSx Lasers

Software Engineer — Wrote the embedded control, signal processing, & display GUI code for the OCT system for a medical laser.

2006 - 2008

Alcon Labs

Associate Engineer — Wrote audio playback & GUI code for a medical laser

lean teams — outsize results

It all begins with focus.

Lean engineering teams can deliver when we invest in systems to 10x dev productivity. Bespoke tools and process are feared by others for non conformity but give us an unfair advantage.