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Adam Michael Spaulding

Backend and Platform Engineer

Summary

Backend and platform engineer focused on scalable system design for cloud data infrastructure and production AI agents. Led platform work projected to save about $54K a year on AWS and cut large pipeline runtimes 3x to 32x. Core engineer on an AI product that automates client integrations, from raw ERP data to a live web app. Known for high output and end-to-end ownership.

Experience

Pepper AI-first platform for independent distributors

Apr 2025 – Present
Software Engineer II | Platform
Jun 2026 – Present
  • Drive performance and cost initiatives for the data ingestion platform, which runs about 25,000 pipelines a day on AWS Batch and Fargate.
  • Led the move from JSONL to Parquet storage. Files are 44x smaller, data written is down 93%, and S3 savings are projected at about $42K a year.
  • Rebuilt PostgreSQL ingestion with concurrent upserts, parallel validation, and Polars vectorization, making large runs 3x to 32x faster.
  • Leading the consolidation of 29 client pricing systems into a single pricing engine. More than 12 have migrated, each at 97% or better price parity.
  • Moved pricing pipelines to delta ingestion and content-based triggers, ending full reloads of files with more than 6 million rows.
  • Built Claude Code skills and agent runbooks that let implementation teams extend ERP integrations on their own.
Software Engineer I | AI Integration Platform
Dec 2025 – Jun 2026
  • Core engineer on an AI product that turns raw ERP data into a live web app, with its ETL pipeline running within 10 minutes.
  • Hardened the product's coding agent (Claude Agent SDK) with hallucination checks, CI-gated pull requests, and A/B testing.
  • Built an LLM feature that converts plain-English data rules into configuration, backed by a live eval suite.
  • Led the switch from LLM-written code to a deterministic, spec-driven renderer for reproducible output at lower cost.
  • Created a drag-and-drop onboarding flow editor (React, TypeScript) and the self-serve portal backend. The first client went live in 2 days.
  • Extended the product to 7 ERPs, including QuickBooks Online and NetSuite.
Forward Deployed Engineer
Apr 2025 – Dec 2025
  • Launched ERP integrations for more than 35 distributors, including Python ETL pipelines, on-premises EDI connectors, and real-time pricing.
  • Built exporters that send orders, payments, credit requests, and price edits back into each client's ERP.
  • Owned integrations across dozens of ERPs, from scoping with client IT teams through launch and support.
  • Turned one-off client builds into reusable ERP integrations, so each new client starts from shared, tested code.

Ginsberg’s Foods Hudson, NY

Apr 2023 – Apr 2025
Data Programmer / Analyst
Jan 2024 – Apr 2025
  • Designed and ran a self-hosted data warehouse (Linux, MySQL, ClickHouse) with ETL from ERP, EDI, and web sources.
  • Automated company reporting, built EDI integrations, and developed time-series forecasting models.
Business Analyst
Apr 2023 – Jan 2024

Skills

Languages
Python, SQL, TypeScript, JavaScript, Bash
Backend and data
REST APIs (FastAPI, Django), PostgreSQL, Redis, Pydantic, Polars, pandas, DuckDB, Parquet, ETL/ELT
Cloud
AWS (ECS Fargate, Batch, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, Aurora), Terraform, Docker, Linux, GitHub Actions CI/CD
AI engineering
Production AI agents (Claude Agent SDK), context engineering, LLM evals and safety checks, guardrails
Agentic workflows
Claude Code (custom skills, subagents), background coding agents, AI code review
Engineering
Distributed systems, event-driven pipelines, multi-tenant SaaS, performance and cost optimization, on-call

Education