Adam Gordon

[email protected] | Toronto, Ontario | www.adamgordon.ca

Chief Technology Officer & Engineering Leader

Summary

Engineering leader and full-stack developer with 10+ years of experience in application modernization and distributed systems. Passionate about building reliable, cutting-edge platforms, scaling microservices architectures, and leading teams to deliver transformative user experiences.

Technical Skills

Elixir Java Node.js React GCP & AWS Docker Terraform Apache Kafka Scala Microservices

Experience

Stash Aug 2021 - Feb 2026

Staff Software Engineer
  • Architected and deployed a customer-facing AI advisory platform utilizing AWS Bedrock to deliver personalized, real-time financial guidance.
  • Engineered robust data pipelines utilizing Plaid to aggregate and synthesize a holistic, 360-degree picture of customers’ financial health.
  • Spearheaded a massive CI/CD infrastructure migration to ephemeral GitHub Action runners, significantly accelerating development cycle times and reducing cloud costs.
  • Tech Stack: Golang, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Docker, Spot.io (Ocean), Valkey, AWS Bedrock, Plaid

Stealth Startup Jun 2021 - Present

Chief Technology Officer
  • Leading technology innovations and engineering strategy for a stealth startup.
  • Architecting highly scalable, full-stack platforms from the ground up to solve complex industry challenges.

Firework Jul 2021 - Dec 2022

Senior Software Engineer
  • Collaborated with a lean engineering team to build interactive live streaming capabilities, custom marketing integrations, and seamless checkout flows.
  • Transformed the retail customer engagement model and drove adoption across thousands of enterprise clients.

Deloitte Jan 2020 - Jun 2021

Senior Lead - Systems Engineering
  • Led a team of developers to architect a robust API orchestration system using Elixir and modernized legacy microservices using Java and Kotlin.
  • Engineered live employee-facing dashboards using React and WebSockets, successfully unlocking scalable API growth and providing real-time operational visibility.

Deloitte Digital (Loblaws Digital) Nov 2017 - Jan 2020

Team Lead & Solution Architect
  • Architected the strategic transition of a legacy e-commerce platform (Hybris/Oracle) to a modern microservices architecture utilizing Elixir, GCP, Java, Docker, and Node.js.
  • Successfully deployed scalable core APIs that powered a unified, first-class omnichannel shopping experience for millions of Canadians across web, mobile, voice, and in-store digital channels.

Avanade / Infusion Mar 2017 - Oct 2017

Senior Consultant
  • Led a full-stack modernization of a legacy trading platform using JavaEE, Dropwizard, Angular, and TypeScript.
  • Engineered a novel data-driven forms framework that allowed traders to build new trade types without altering core application code.
  • Radically improved trader productivity, eliminated transcription errors, and championed a testing culture that increased unit test coverage from 8% to 40% across multiple core services.

Strategic Coach Jun 2016 - Mar 2017

Web Developer
  • Designed and implemented a real-time call booking application using Node.js, Salesforce Apex Rest APIs, and VisualForce, integrating directly with the internal Zimbra calendar system.
  • Eliminated scheduling bottlenecks by giving clients a real-time self-service booking portal, while allowing employees to customize their availability and lead times.