Hi, I'm
Adam Richie-Halford
I run engineering for ROAR at Stanford. The platform comes out of the Stanford Reading & Dyslexia Research Program and is now used in 309 K-12 school districts. I built the engineering team and own the work to take it from a research project to a system schools can rely on.
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 and 2,708 schools, with 160K+ students and 873K+ assessment sessions. I own the architecture and the FERPA-grade data governance behind that footprint.
A team and a culture
I built and lead the engineering team. Six people now, plus QA. Hiring, operating cadence, and AI practice are all my problem 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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