Anika Adams

Summary

Anika Adams is a lead backend engineer (12 yrs) based in Cape Town. Ships TypeScript services on Postgres with clear ownership of high-throughput notification services.

Experience

• Junior Software Engineerat Acme2019–now

  • Shipped a engineering initiative that improved retention by 41%.
  • Built a data pipeline adopted by 4 teammates.
  • Mentored 2 engineers; ran the interview loop.
• Full Stack Engineerat Pied Piper2016–2019

  • Shipped a engineering initiative that improved latency by 44%.
  • Built a design system adopted by 5 teammates.
  • Mentored 3 engineers; ran the interview loop.
• Backend Engineerat Vodacom2013–2016

  • Shipped a engineering initiative that improved NPS by 47%.
  • Built a tooling framework adopted by 6 teammates.
  • Mentored 4 engineers; ran the interview loop.

Education

• BA · Engineering

  University of Pretoria · 2009–2013

Communication log

Recent comms

• outboundemail8/4/2026, 8:02:59 PM
  Offer details

  Touching base on the ML Engineer · mid · axdemo #054 search. Happy to share more context when useful.

• inboundlinkedin8/4/2026, 1:02:59 PMby Elle

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• outboundemail8/4/2026, 6:02:59 AM
  Screening call invitation

  Touching base on the ML Engineer · mid · axdemo #054 search. Happy to share more context when useful.