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Hey! I'm Adam 👋

I'm a software engineer, poet, and theatermaker based in New York City.

I work at IBM on the Z mainframe platform, bringing modern open-source tooling to legacy systems. Outside of work, I build tools for geospatial AI and humanitarian use — recently profiled by NYU Tandon Engineering for this work.

Latest writings

🎮 Lean, Mean, AI-Powered Machine: Why Nintendo Switch 2 Ports Are Defying Expectations

A deep dive into the Nintendo Switch 2's T239 chip architecture and how DLSS, hardware ray tracing, and power efficiency enable current-gen gaming in a portable form factor.
📚 What Makes a Bookstore a 'Third Place'? I Used AI to Find Out

Using network analysis and LLM-powered review classification to explore how bookstores in Brooklyn and Queens function as community spaces.
🖥️ Ticks by Telnet: Load Testing IBM Z Mainframe Terminals with py3270 and Locust

Extending the Locust load testing framework to simulate concurrent 3270 terminal sessions on IBM Z mainframes using py3270, enabling stress testing of legacy green-screen applications via Telnet.
⚡ Open Zesame: Dual Development with Z Open Automation Utilities and z/OS Open Tools

Exploring how Z Open Automation Utilities and z/OS Open Tools modernize mainframe development, enabling Unix-style workflows with tools like jq, curl, and bash to interact with z/OS data sets and system commands.
🔧 Go-ing Native: Porting Grafana k6 to z/OS with Go

A step-by-step account of porting the Grafana k6 load testing tool to run natively on z/OS mainframes using Go, overcoming build flag issues, dependency management, and platform-specific syscall incompatibilities.

Recent projects

🌊 Our Era

Climate-aware emergency routing tool for Brownsville, Brooklyn — winner of Best Community Communication Tool at the LEAP Climate Hackathon.
🛡️ Youth Safety & Design Standard (YSDS)

First place at MIT's 8th Annual Policy Hackathon — AI-powered analysis of youth online safety legislation with an interactive policy dashboard.
🌐 DreamMeridian

Geospatial intelligence at the Edge — offline AI spatial queries on a Raspberry Pi, designed for refugee camps and disaster zones.

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