Adam Van Ymeren
Platform-oriented full stack engineer.
14+ years building cross-platform clients at scale and delivering complex consumer software under real-world constraints.
Experience
Automattic
Head of Product Engineering, Beeper | 2024–Present
- Own user facing surfaces of Beeper (Android, iOS, Desktop).
- Manage org of 12 engineers for app that serves ~90k DAUs and tens millions of messages per day
- Architected and built v4 client platform powering all clients; bringing remote network integrations from cloud to on-device.
iOS v4 Lead & Client Architect, Beeper | 2023–2024
- Post acquisition, merged Beeper and Texts teams into 7 person iOS team for greenfield app rewrite.
- Wrote majority of the code and organized the team to deliver an internal beta in 3 months.
Beeper
Engineering Lead | 2021-Present
- Lead Beeper Mini (iMessage on Android) from inception to launch. Scaled to 100k paying users
- Lead Beeper Android v4 rebuild and launch
- iOS Data Layer
- Beeper Desktop Lead
Scalar.tools
Solopreneur | 2019–Present
- Offline first project management suite
Nanopay
Software Engineer | 2017–2019
- Framework and Architecture Lead
Google
Software Engineer | 2011–2017
- Google+ Mobile Web
- Gmail Offline
- FOAM Rapid Application Framework
Education
University of Western Ontario
Bachelor of Engineering Science, Software Engineering
- Top of Class