Benjamin Adams
Featured Projects
MiniShell
Unix Terminal Emulator
A Linux-like command line interface written in C, compiled to WebAssembly for seamless browser integration.
Tech Stack
LeetGenie
Chrome Extension
A published Chrome extension that provides AI-powered hints for LeetCode problems without spoiling the solution. Available on the Chrome Web Store.
Tech Stack
About Me
Background
Growing up with video games sparked my curiosity about how software works, which eventually led me to study CS at Northeastern. Now I have a passion for Software Development, AI, and building tools that make a difference.
Work Experience
Contract and internship roles focused on building data pipelines, applied-AI tooling, and scalable backend systems.
Software Engineer (Contract)
PlusWellbeing.ai
AI Meal-Analysis Pipeline
Built a pipeline that turns a meal photo or text into structured nutrition data: multimodal Amazon Bedrock (Claude Sonnet 4.5) identifies the ingredients, NutritionIX fills in the macros, a scoring step rates each meal for allergen safety and plan fit, and the result is saved as a FHIR food log, with JSON-schema-constrained output streamed to clients over SSE.
PostgreSQL Query Optimization
Tracked down an N+1 query problem on a core endpoint (about 75 per-session queries, roughly 98s of database time) and rewrote it with set-based PostgreSQL (DISTINCT ON, batched GROUP BY counts) plus selective KMS decryption, dropping latency from about 9s to 0.25s.
Patient Identifier (MRN) System
Designed a UUID-based medical record number scheme with an idempotent batch backfill for existing patients and an event-driven service that assigns an ID on patient creation, handling collisions under concurrency.
Agentic Shopping Workflow
Built an agentic workflow with n8n and Amazon Bedrock that normalizes free-text recipe ingredients and maps them to retailer carts through a modular Walmart and Instacart adapter layer. Also set up an org-wide GitHub to Monday.com data sync and a reusable smoke-test framework for release QA across 4 apps.
Software Engineering Intern
ATPCO
Custom Feature Flag Provider
Designed and implemented a custom feature flag provider enabling dynamic flag evaluation from YAML files stored in AWS S3
Testing & Observability Implementation
Achieved comprehensive unit test and integration coverage, implemented logging capabilities using OpenTelemetry API
Software Engineering Intern
Snipp Interactive
AI-Powered Product Data API
Global Location Normalization API
AWS S3 Asset Management UI
Lets Connect!
adams.be@northeastern.edu