Adam Urban

Building robust web applications & creative coding experiments.

Work Experience

Senior Fullstack Engineer at Camunda
2019-07 – Present· 7 yrs
  • Fullstack development of Camunda Cloud using Cloud-Native technologies
  • Contributing to the entire tech stack (Backend & Frontend)
  • Close collaboration with SRE and product teams
Cloud Adviser at SICK AG
2017-09 – 2019-06· 1 yr 10 mos
  • Established scalable DevOps organization for cloud expansion
  • Liaison between Product Management and R&D
  • Introduced agile and lean methodologies
Team Lead Order Management at IONOS
2011-08 – 2019-06· 7 yrs 11 mos
  • Lead Developer for next-gen order management platform
  • Unified Dev & Ops into a DevOps organization
  • Plan-Build-Run responsibility for international order processes
Research Associate at FZI
2011-01 – 2011-07· 7 mos
  • Research in Ambient Assisted Living and Healthcare
  • Collaboration with European research institutions (universAAL)
  • Pursued PhD studies in Ambient Assisted Living
Software Engineer and Consultant at Camos
2009-05 – 2010-12· 1 yr 8 mos
  • Initial deployment of the core product
  • Conducting customer training on the development kit
  • Tailoring the core product to meet specific client requirements

Featured Projects

Aime Directory
2025

Curated tools & knowledge for building modern AI-powered software. A comprehensive directory of Model Context Providers (MCPs), VSCode configs, prompts, instructions, articles, and tools for AI-assisted development.

typescript, astro, ai
Boring Dev Tools
2025

A collection of essential developer utilities that work locally in your browser. No fancy UIs, no backends, no data collection - just the tools you need including JWT decoder, URL decoder, Cron expressions, JSON formatter, and more.

typescript, react, developer-tools
Camunda Directory
2025

A curated directory of resources, tools, and best practices for the Camunda ecosystem. Discover connectors, templates, plugins, and community contributions for process automation and workflow orchestration.

typescript, astro, camunda

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
2003-10 – 2009-04
  • Specialization: Information Systems and Telematics
  • Diploma Thesis in Health Care
  • Started programming with Turbo Pascal at age 10

Interests

Generative Art, Creative Coding, Cloud Architecture, Open Source Contributing, Mentoring, Travel.

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