adam ghaida

software engineer & builder

cs @ carnegie mellon. currently building @ orchid — backed by 1984 ventures, ycombinator, and pioneer fund.

i also bake, play music, and take photos.

selected work ~/history
orchid
current 2025

building the future of email. backed by y combinator, 1984 ventures, pioneer fund, lobster capital, and others. working across swe, growth, and everything in between.

perplexity ai 2024 volunteering

worked closely with the technical team to build the premier ai search engine for students.

shortpoint sports
2024

took the platform from 0 to thousands of users in months. worked on infra, frontend, and performance.

global learning 2023

built ai tutoring tools with custom inference pipelines and a rest-ful api backend.

massarat
2022

full-stack ed-tech platform. built the api, and frontend from scratch using firebase and flutter. shipped to students across lebanon.

education ~/school
carnegie mellon university 2023 – present

b.s. computer science, minor in philosophy. pittsburgh, pa & doha, qatar.

— ta, 15-122 principles of imperative computation spring 2026

— head ta, 15-112 fundamentals of programming fall 2025

— ta, 15-112 fundamentals of programming spring 2025

— academic responsibility panel 2025 – present