On the water
Fly fishing
Equal parts problem solving, exploration, and an excuse to spend a day in a river. Fly fishing has taught me patience, observation, and an appreciation for small details.
Adam Botha
Software Engineer
Software engineer. Product thinker. Relentless problem solver.
8+
Years in Software
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Problems Left to Solve
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Career Built on Ownership
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Career Journey
My professional journey.
From frontend craft to scaling a logistics platform, to a lean startup where I work across mobile, cloud, and AI. The throughline: ownership.
June 2018 - Dec 2019
Derivco
Frontend & Web Games
Started my career building web-based mobile games and frontend products. This was where I learned the fundamentals of software engineering, working in a team, shipping features, fixing bugs, and writing code that real people use.
JavaScriptTypescriptHTML
Jan 2020 — Mar 2025
Linebooker
Helping a growing company scale with software
Joined Linebooker while the company was still relatively small and spent five years growing alongside the business. Worked across backend, frontend, integrations, internal tooling, and customer-facing products, helping solve the challenges that naturally emerged as the company scaled.
ReactJavaMySQLSystems integrationLogistics
Now
Kingly Clark
Lean startup — full-stack, mobile, cloud, AI
Worked across mobile, backend, cloud infrastructure, AI initiatives, and product development in a lean startup environment. Helped build Wunderfan and Wunderpar, two consumer-facing products with real users and real business impact.
React Native.NETC#AI
Some of my recent work
Real apps. Real users. Real outcomes.
Two consumer products I've helped take from concept to production.
Sports engagement & rewards
Wunderfan
Get rewarded for engaging with sports, whether at the stadium or at home. Built around live sports and fully integrated into the sportstech ecosystem. Available on iOS and Android. Built using React Native, .NET, C# and AI-powered image classification.
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Golf engagement & rewards
Wunderpar
Built for golfers. Wunderpar rewards users for engaging with the game in different ways — from playing a round to watching professional tournaments. Features include leaderboards, contests, activity tracking, and a voucher marketplace. Built with React Native and available on both iOS and Android.
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A few things I've spent real time on.
Leveraging AI to its Full Potential
Using AI to accelerate software development, improve business workflows, and unlock new product capabilities.
GPS Tracking
From tracking golfers on a course to tracking trucks across the country, building systems that make location data useful and actionable.
Internal Tooling
Building systems that help teams work more effectively, reduce manual effort, and remove operational bottlenecks.
Mobile Product Development
Building and evolving consumer-facing iOS and Android applications used by real customers every day.
Writing Testable Backend Code
Building backend systems that are reliable, maintainable, and easy to evolve with confidence.
Third-Party System Integrations
Connecting everything from sports scheduling APIs to vehicle tracking providers and other external systems.
Sports Fan Engagement
Designing rewards, competitions, and engagement systems that encourage users to keep coming back.
Scaling Logistics Operations
Helping a rapidly growing logistics business move beyond spreadsheets and manual processes through software.
From Problem to Production
Turning ambiguous business requirements into practical systems and features that deliver real value.
Technical Skills
My full-stack toolbox
I use whatever fits the problem, and I'm comfortable across the stack.
Backend
.NET
C#
Spring BootFrontend
ReactReact Native
TypeScriptCloud & Infrastructure
GCP
AWS
KubernetesDatabases
SQL Server
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2,348 commits305 PRs94 reviews367 active days
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Engineering philosophy
How I think about the work.
A few ideas I try to live by, regardless of what I'm building — and how AI fits into the way I work.
Ownership
"I treat problems end-to-end rather than simply completing tickets."
Business first
"I enjoy understanding the why behind requirements."
Reliability
"Build systems that people can depend on."
Continuous learning
"Always improving and exploring new technologies."
AI as a force multiplier
AI doesn't replace engineering. It amplifies it.
I use AI tools every day — Cursor, agent workflows, custom rules, context engineering — to ship more, faster, without lowering the bar.
AI in products
Embedding AI where it actually adds value — image verification, classification, content workflows.
Context engineering
Designing the right context, rules and constraints so AI tools produce work I'd be happy to ship.
Agent workflows
Composing agents to handle multi-step engineering tasks — research, scaffolding, refactor, review.
cursor · agent session
// rules/engineering.md
- Understand the business "why" before the "how" - Prefer boring tech that scales - Ship small, observable changes - Treat tests as production code - Leave the codebase better than you found it
$ agent run --task ship-feature
✓ read 14 files in 220ms
✓ proposed plan · 3 steps
✓ implemented changes · 6 files
✓ ran tests · 142 passed
→ ready for review
Off the keyboard
More about me.
A few of the interests that shape how I think about technology, problems, and the world.
Markets
Personal finance & investing
Fascinated by how money, incentives, and systems shape the world around us. I enjoy learning about investing, economics, and long-term wealth creation.
Building things
Business & entrepreneurship
I enjoy understanding how businesses grow, create value, and solve real-world problems. Building software has given me a deep appreciation for the challenges of running a business.
How things connect
Systems thinking
Whether it's technology, economics, software architecture, or everyday life, I'm naturally drawn to understanding how systems work and how small changes can create large outcomes.
References
Strong references available from previous managers, technical leads, and colleagues.
Kingly Clark
References available from leadership, engineering, product, and marketing stakeholders.
Linebooker
References available from technical leadership and senior colleagues.
LinkedIn profiles and contact details available on request.
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Have a problem worth solving?
I'm always up for conversations about products, systems, scaling, AI — or all of the above.