My Story

I'm Adam Matthew Steinberger — a Staff Software Architect and AI Automation Engineer based in Greenville, South Carolina. I build RAG systems, event-driven microservices, and automation pipelines, and I write down how they work well enough that the person who inherits them can actually run them.

How I think about systems

I go deep rather than wide. Give me one hard architecture problem and a clear runway, and I'll sit inside it until it's actually solved rather than patched — and I'll hand back a design document before I hand back code, because the expensive decisions get made before anyone opens an editor.

What I'm good at is the row that doesn't match. In a spreadsheet, in a log, in a RAG pipeline — the one document that contradicts the other nine hundred is usually the one that matters, and averaging it away is how systems quietly go wrong. That instinct is why I write things down, and why the documentation is a deliverable rather than an afterthought.

How I work best

• Written specs and async communication over live whiteboards and drive-by Slack pings
• Deep, uninterrupted blocks of time on one hard problem, not context-switched across five
• Remote-first — Greenville, SC is home; the work travels fine over a network connection
• Documentation as a deliverable, not an afterthought — the goal is a system a junior engineer can own

The Vizius year

I spent a year as Senior Azure & AI Development Engineer at The Vizius Group, a cybersecurity firm in Greenville. As of September 2026 I'm looking for the next team where AI, automation, and architecture are the whole job, not a side quest — the problems I do my best work on, and the ones where I ship the documentation that lets a junior developer own what I built.

The year was dense. I was sole architect of the firm's AI governance gateway — five model vendors behind one policy-enforced API, with per-project cost caps, a hash-chained audit trail, and no API keys anywhere in the path — and then migrated three product teams onto it. I co-led a 20-microservice AI payroll platform (585 test modules, human approval on every phase), led a technical report generation platform, and wrote two identity-governance-as-code control planes for a SOX-regulated enterprise, a ticket relay with 653 tests and chaos-proved convergence, and a multi-tenant observability portal. Underneath all of it: OIDC workload identity across 20 CI workflows in 9 repos, supply-chain scanning and keyless signing, and vibey-bootstrap (published then as azure-bootstrap), the shared Python platform library adopted by 17+ of the org's repositories. Around the code: five formal architecture document sets, identity-governance advisory for ~5,700 workforce identities, an original “Security-First Scrum” framework with training manuals and AI-agent rulesets, and the firm's LinkedIn thought-leadership program end to end. Client identities stay out of it.

On the side, unpaid: I'm the volunteer architect behind Project Excite, the relay that hands a seeker from an AI apologetics chatbot to a live volunteer without losing the thread — designed in three technical summaries before a line of code, then shipped across split PR stacks. And in 2026 I wrote business plans and architecture documents for two SaaS concepts of my own; those stay unnamed here.

Before that

Thirteen-plus years of software engineering, starting in Albany, New York, and running through insurance systems, fintech, toll billing, mobile networking, and lab-equipment calibration before I landed on AI and Azure architecture as the work I actually want to be doing every day. If you want the fuller version of my story, the parts that aren't about software are in the book I wrote.

Timeline

1. 2012B.A. Computer Science, Skidmore College
2. 2013–2015Town & Country Computer Services — junior engineer, insurance software
3. 2015–2019New York State Insurance Fund — migrated VB6 to C# MVC, mentored junior devs
4. 2019–2020Bestpass — toll billing systems, introduced automated testing to a legacy codebase
5. 2020–2021Akmazio — led Agile delivery for a mobile networking platform
6. 2021Certified ScrumMaster
7. 2021–2022LeaseTrack — Python + AWS Textract for insurance document parsing
8. 2022–2023Transcat — .NET Web APIs and React for lab equipment calibration
9. 2023–2025Lima One Capital, Greenville SC — NestJS/gRPC microservices suite, replaced legacy Mulesoft
10. Mar–Aug 2025Adam Matthew Steinberger LLC — self-hosted RAG, cloud RAG, production push notifications
11. Sep 2025–Aug 2026The Vizius Group — Senior Azure & AI Development Engineer
12. Sep 2026Available — Staff Software Architect & AI Automation Engineer