Adam Kosecki

I am Adam Kosecki, a highly-analytical product developer with 10+ years of experience. I create things that are clean; from beautiful, straightforward, comprehensible design elements to robust & readable code.

I strive to understand a problem from all angles before outlining a solution. My solutions are a fair compromise between form and function, fanciness and efficiency, seriousness and fun.

I am a leader. I make decisions when appropriate, and defer or delegate without shame. People respect me and enjoy working with me.

Experience

SpotMii

2017 - 2019 Co-Founder / Developer

SpotMii was created to provide fitness consumers a way to discover new and exciting fitness facilities, and streamline the payment and check-in process for individuals that frequent multiple gyms. Users purchase single-use passes for drop-in access and scheduled classes. Payments and scheduling are handled in-app.

As a co-founder of SpotMii, I successfully designed, built, and deployed demonstrative beta versions of our apps that enabled us to secure an angel round of funding. I completed and launched the app in early 2019.

  • Geo-located, on-demand, two-sided marketplace consisting of discrete consumer and affiliate apps
  • Single codebase SPA/JS app deployed to iOS App Store and Android/Google Play via Cordova
  • Three apps built and deployed: Consumer facing app, affiliate app for gym owners, and an intranet for internal moderation.
  • Ember.js SPA design & implementation
  • PHP/Phalcon API design & implementation
  • MySQL DBA
  • AWS infrastructure

MogulMind

2016 - 2018 Co-Founder / Developer

I designed and built MogulMind: an Ember.js SPA that provides insight into real estate investments, helping to increase ROI and make better investment decisions. MogulMind is a first-to-market web app providing traditional RE investment calculations for the modern world, as well as proprietary investment advice through AI.

  • As the founder's first partner, I took MogulMind from napkin idea to launch and customer acquisition. I was the root of anything technical or design related.
  • SPA: Ember.js design & implementation
  • REST API: PHP/Phalcon/MySQL design & implementation
  • Marketing website design & implementation
  • AWS infrastructure

Clear Software

2015 - 2016 VP of Product / Lead Developer

Transitioned Clear Software from an on-premise, single-user solution to a multi-tenant, SaaS, cloud application. Evangelized best practices and modern development techniques.

HelpSystems

2014 - 2015 / Full-time
2015 - 2016 / Contract
Senior Developer

* HelpSystems acquired Network Automation (below)

Developed and deployed an HTML5, mobile-first invoicing application in PHP/AngularJS/MySql to facilitate an end-to-end process for online ordering and payments. The application included a robust API allowing it to integrate with multiple, disparate back-end legacy systems.

Implemented ETL processes to migrate and synchronize data between HelpSystems and Network Automation servers throughout the acquisition process.

Network Automation

2005 - 2014 Lead Developer, UI Design (Web & Windows App)

Created entire public web entity for company (no longer online as of 2019), including all visual design elements, technological decisions (language/framework/server), coding, SEO decisions, optimization for user experience & retention, and… everything else:

  • Lead on-borading.
  • Built a homegrown shopping cart system: processed every purchase/transaction made through the company. Responsible not only for collecting payment, but issuing products and licenses to customers.
  • Built a homegrown Customer Resource Center: video tutorials, knowledge-base articles, product version history, etc. Included an internal CMS for resource center.
  • Built a homegrown, drag-n-drop html email creation tool for our newsletters (mailchimp before mailchimp). Integrated with our blog, etc. to easily drag-n-drop existing articles to create an HTML newsletter. Included mass-mailing system and managed subscribers.
  • Built a homegrown support ticketing system.
  • Built a homegrown Channel/Partner Portal: an application to provide sales collateral, news, lead registration, etc for resellers/VARs/strategic partners.
  • Built our homegrown customer account application (address info, license keys, product maintenance subscriptions, etc).
  • Marketing and pre-sales content: press releases, news, case studies, blog.

Served as company DBA, implementing best practices including full normalization of existing MS SQL database. Wrote and revised countless queries, views, and stored procedures for various organizational departments.

Inherited, managed, enhanced, and enriched existing (homegrown) corporate CRM.

Tech & Tools

Tools & technologies regularly used to work efficiently.

  • JS
  • Ember.JS
  • Cordova
  • Bootstrap
  • MySQL & MS SQL
  • Sphinx Full-Text Search Server
  • PHP, Phalcon
  • AWS Deployment & Infrastructure
  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science,
Programming Emphasis
Western Illinois University 2000-2004
Minor in Psychology

Other

Has nothing to do with working with me.

I love to build things; always have, always will. There's always at least one vintage motorcycle or car being worked on in my garage. Looking forward to finding the right EV conversion project.

The marriage of form and function motivates me; when it's right, it's beautiful.