Hi, I'm
Adam Richie-Halford
I'm a Senior Manager of Engineering at McGraw Hill, in the Insights, Personalization & Assessment group. I lead the integration of ROAR — the K-12 reading-assessment platform I built and led engineering for at Stanford, now used in 309 school districts and licensed by McGraw Hill as a third-party assessment.
Earlier: Director of Technology at Stanford's ROAR; DOE Computational Science fellow and PhD physicist; open-source maintainer (Nature Methods, SciPy, JOSS); Peace Corps health educator in Morocco; U.S. Air Force systems-engineering officer.
What I've built
A platform at scale
ROAR runs in 309 districts and 2,708 schools, with 160K+ students and 873K+ assessment sessions. I built the architecture and the FERPA-grade data governance behind that footprint — and now lead its integration at McGraw Hill.
A team and a culture
I built and led ROAR's engineering team from one person to six, plus QA. Hiring, operating cadence, and an AI-accelerated engineering practice were all mine to solve.
A research-to-practice bridge
Open-source tools in Nature Methods, SciPy, and JOSS. Validated assessments built with Stanford's Accelerator for Learning, now used by districts to act on what the measurement science says.
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