I'm a software engineer at IBM in New York City, working on test automation and technology modernization for the IBM Z mainframe platform. I'm replacing legacy mainframe testing tools with modern open-source frameworks — porting Grafana k6 natively to z/OS, building Locust-based load testing for 3270 terminals, and creating CI/CD pipelines that bring modern DevOps practices to enterprise mainframe infrastructure.
I'm pursuing an M.S. in Computer Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering and a B.A. in Computer Science and Theater from Wesleyan University , where I was a Patricelli Center Fellow .
Outside of work, I build tools at the intersection of geospatial AI and humanitarian use. My project DreamMeridian — which runs AI-powered geospatial queries entirely offline on a Raspberry Pi for refugee camps and disaster zones — placed 2nd out of 1,600+ participants in the ARM AI Developer Challenge. I was also profiled by NYU Tandon Engineering for this work.
This thread runs back to my time at UNICEF, where I built geospatial routing tools for school site planning, and through projects like AskStreets (GraphRAG for urban planning) and our climate-aware emergency routing tool for Brownsville, Brooklyn, which won Best Community Communication Tool at the LEAP Climate Hackathon at the American Museum of Natural History.
I'm also a poet and theatermaker. My poetry has been published in Collide-oscope (Heart on Our Sleeves Press) and Four Tulips , where I was a finalist in the Fantastic Mischief Writing Contest. On the theater side, I've produced 34 shows, directed Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced at Wesleyan, stage-managed Really Really Gorgeous at The Tank NYC , and worked as a sound, set, and graphic designer .
Around the web
- GitHub: msradam
- LinkedIn: adamsrahman
- Medium: @msradam