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. Strategic partnerships with Stanford Accelerator for Learning, Ai2, and 25+ school districts that turn research into deployed software.
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