Adam Hearn

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Who I am

Adam Hearn is an engineer and researcher. His initiatives intersect performance, novel computing, and distributed systems.

Building at scale

Software Development Engineer II

2023 —

Palo Alto, CA

Building the Future.

Software Development Engineer I

2022 - 2023

Palo Alto, CA

Software Development Engineer Intern

2021

Seattle, Washington

Solving Cold Start.

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Building in the void

A novel functional effects system for Scala, focused on simplicity and performance.

Type-safe, composable asynchronous and concurrent programming for Scala.

Building the future of wine.

Talks & articles

LambdaConf · Estes Park, CO

Algebraic effects offer a simpler, more modular way to think about streams by treating them as first-class effectful computations.

Scala for Fun & Profit

Flavio Brasil and I demo Kyo's novel capabilities in functional programming.

ScalaIO · Paris, France

A gentle introduction to Kyo, a novel functional effects system for Scala.

LambdaConf · Estes Park, CO

James Ward and I compared various approaches to structured concurrency across languages, frameworks, and multi-dimensional realities.