Hi, I'm
Adam Richie-Halford
I run engineering for ROAR at Stanford — a research-grade reading-assessment platform now in 309 K-12 school districts. I build the team, the architecture, and the data practice that turn peer-reviewed science into something teachers actually use on a Tuesday morning.
Earlier: 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 own
A platform at scale
ROAR runs in 309 districts, 2,708 schools, with 160K+ students and 873K+ assessment sessions. I own the architecture, reliability, and FERPA-grade data governance behind that footprint.
A team and a culture
I built and lead a cross-functional team of six engineers (and growing). I set the hiring bar, the operating cadence, and the standards for how AI gets used in our day-to-day engineering.
A research-to-practice bridge
Open-source tools published in Nature Methods, SciPy, and JOSS. Validated reading assessments built in partnership with Stanford's Accelerator for Learning and deployed across school districts that turn measurement science into software classrooms can use.
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