[ 01 ] · Who you’re working with
Ade Amos
I’m a forward deployed engineer. Most of my career has been frontend, and that is still how I think as an engineer. The last few years pushed me into the full system: backend, data, workflow orchestration and LLM integration, because I wanted to take a problem from the first conversation to something running in production.
- ✓Forward deployed engineer since late 2025: on-site discovery and an order-to-floor system for a manufacturer; content, reporting and sales tooling for a marketing agency.
- ✓Staff Software Engineer at a medical-device company: clinical software, accessible visualizations, AI-assisted engineering tools.
- ✓10+ years shipping React, React Native and TypeScript products, from a two-person startup to enterprise consulting.
- ✓B.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Houston. Remote, US based.
[ 02 ] · How I work
Four habits from the builds that went well.
Start with the people doing the job
Interviews, direct observation, a process map, then written requirements. Code comes after. On the manufacturing build that meant the retail counter and the shop floor before the editor.
Build for the actual user
Shop-floor screens got bigger type and a plainer interface. Paper travel tickets stayed where they still worked. Integrations adapt to the client’s field names, not the other way round.
Put the rule in the interface
“Needs Clarification” requires a message, even by drag and drop. Nonstandard requests route to a person. Publication and ad concepts wait for approval where the work calls for it.
Verify the output, not the status
A green run is not a published article. A saved state is not a synced record. Read back after every write, keep unknowns unknown, and keep failed work instead of discarding it.
[ 03 ] · Experience
Where the work has been.
On-site discovery with a manufacturer’s retail and shop-floor teams. Process maps, requirements, then a custom CRM and wholesale ordering portal with live status, fabrication rules and production PDFs.
Stakeholder workflow mapping for a marketing agency. Deployed an LLM content pipeline publishing to two CMSs, a performance scorecard across six service lines, shared proposal tooling and CRM integrations.
Omnipod Discover. Built RCA Insights, a local-LLM embedding tool over 400+ Jira postmortems. Set up reusable AI-assisted testing workflows. Shipped accessible clinical visualizations and a five-language rollout with RTL support.
Amazon vendor and account synchronization for onboarding, self-service subscriptions and invoicing, and the internal admin interface for account management.
React and React Native fleet interfaces with Mapbox filtering for operations teams managing thousands of vehicles.
Tournament scheduling and results for thousands of teams. Respawn, a shared interface layer across six product lines.
Migrated the platform from PHP/Laravel to a MERN stack. React Native apps, REST APIs, Socket.IO live tracking, Redis, and accessible-vehicle matching.
Enterprise innovation, media and energy builds, including a supplier inventory tracking system for BCG Digital Ventures.