Hi, I’m Adam! From programming to composition, I’ve always found purpose and beauty through creation. In the musical Sunday in the Park with George, composer Stephen Sondheim penned the lyric “look, I made a hat where there never was a hat.” The show explores the life and legacy of George Seurat— the artist who invented the pointillism movement. Seurat’s use of several hundred thousand dots to form a bigger picture speaks to all forms of creation. In music, each point is a cluster of vibrations coming together to form the frequency and timbre of an audial experience. In computer science, the points could be individual team members’ contributions, functions being strung together, the state of the computer data or instruction memory at each given clock cycle. It all becomes a part of a larger whole. Returning to the lyric- the joy of creation is seeing what you made from nothing and sharing it with those around us.

Did my bio become a discussion on pointillism and Sondheim lyrics? Yes— but I believe that it reflects who I am as a creator. I love to see each little dot of the work come together and become something bigger, something to be proud of, something that I can look at and say “I made that.”