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.
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.
worked closely with the technical team to build the premier ai search engine for students.
took the platform from 0 to thousands of users in months. worked on infra, frontend, and performance.
built ai tutoring tools with custom inference pipelines and a rest-ful api backend.
full-stack ed-tech platform. built the api, and frontend from scratch using firebase and flutter. shipped to students across lebanon.
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