> Adam R. Baldwin

FPL Ultimate

FPL Ultimate began as a website that scraped data from the official Fantasy Premier League (FPL) site to present player stats in a more organized, user-friendly way. It has since evolved into a standalone project that is currently in development.

Fantasy American football sites in the US are impressively polished, with detailed interfaces and clearly a lot of thought behind every feature. I'm aiming to bring that same level of care to a Premier League fantasy platform of my own design, including a redesigned UI and my own scoring system.

Buzzed Trivia

I often write sets of trivia questions to host family trivia nights. I’m a big fan of trivia challenges, and I wanted to expand on my ability to host them.

Inspired by asymmetric party games like jackbox.tv, I’m designing my own version built around my trivia questions. Players will join a shared trivia room using a room code, and the game can run in “Hosted” or “Non-Hosted” mode to allow for many ways to play. It’s still in the early stages, but the idea is simple: make it as easy to run a great trivia night as it is to play one.

Creation API

The Creation API is the catch-all name I have given to my Raspberry Pi and its associated services. I use it to run regularly scheduled jobs, interact with my Discord servers, and to control my 3D printers. One day I hope to use existing services to piece together my own digital assistant.

The Creation API is the answer to any question that can be solved via programming.

Bandwidth Inc.

Software Engineer I -- Jun. 2022 - Oct. 2024
Software Engineer II -- Oct. 2024 - Present

Bandwidth hired me as an intern during my final year in college. I was put on a team developing an experimental video chat application using WebRTC. This was a pivotal opportunity in my career, as I was able to jump into my new job before I even finished my degree. I was hired full-time the summer after graduation.

Shortly after, my team moved from WebRTC to Messaging, Bandwidth's core business. There, we built APIs for tracking the provisioning of automated text messaging channels. This work gave me valuable experience building independently deployed services that aggregate data from multiple external parties. In October 2024, I was promoted to Software Engineer II, a recognition of my growth and my ability to take on the same work with more independence and skill.

I will always be thankful to Bandwidth for taking a chance on a self-taught programmer straight out of college.

CapTech Consulting

Software Development Intern -- Summer 2021

I joined CapTech Consulting as an intern in the summer of 2021. I was placed on a team with 11 other interns and tasked with building a web-based application that tracks the items in a user’s pantry and fridge and suggests recipes based on what’s available.

The internship program did a fantastic job of simulating real consulting work. Full-time employees played the role of clients, giving us product requirements and checking in periodically on our progress, and subject matter experts were available to help when we got stuck. I took charge of the API layer, which connected the frontend, the database, and the external image recognition software we used. I also configured the EC2 instance that hosted the application.

My experience at CapTech was invaluable. Working with clients and experts gave me a real taste of consulting, and I am very glad to have been part of such a great intern program.

General Dynamics Information Technology

Software Development and AWS Intern -- Summer 2018
Software Development Intern -- Summer 2019

My very first software development job was an internship at a company called CSRA, which had been acquired by GDIT by the time I started. Working with the other interns, I built a web-based application hosted in AWS that converted VMware virtual machines to KVM virtual machines for internal use. It was my first experience with AWS.

At GDIT I was assigned a mentor who was a wealth of professional advice. She went above and beyond by securing me a second internship in her department, Rapid Application Development, the following summer. There, I overhauled the frontend of an AWS-hosted portal that GDIT’s subcontractors used to track their employees’ certifications. That also meant modifying the underlying SQL database that stored the information.

This was easily my most formative time as a software developer, and I owe much of my success to the people generous enough to help me along the way.

Student Engineers' Council at Virginia Tech

Publicity Chair -- May 2017 - May 2019

I joined the Student Engineers’ Council at the end of my freshman year at Virginia Tech as Publicity Chair. I was in charge of advertising every event the council hosted, managing its social media presence, and creating all of its graphics and art.

The council’s biggest event was Engineering Expo, Virginia Tech’s engineering job fair and, during my time, the largest student-run engineering career fair in the country. Putting it on was an all-hands effort. For my part, I handled the promotion: social media campaigns, physical posters, and shirts for our volunteers. The council also decided as a team how to divide $140,000 each year among design teams, engineering organizations, and the engineering faculty.

My time with the council was a nonstop combination of fun and challenging, and I am very thankful for the opportunity to have contributed. While not technically a job, I owe a great deal of my professional development to the SEC.