Target roles
VP / Director / Head of Engineering
Especially teams responsible for digital commerce, product engineering, platform modernization, reliability, AI/tooling, or cross-functional execution.
Why this page exists
I am open to the right full-time leadership role, and my consulting venture is built on the same operating experience: leading teams, platforms, and execution systems when the stakes are real.
Resume & full-time availability
Engineering leadership for complex digital work.
Adam Bezemek · Engineering leader · Wolf/Bear co-founder
15+ years building and leading engineering organizations, digital platforms, web experiences, and operating systems where speed, ownership, and reliability mattered every day. I am actively open to full-time roles where senior engineering leadership, digital product judgment, and hands-on systems thinking are all needed.
At a glance
Experienced where complexity is real.
My background spans engineering leadership, web design and web development, enterprise replatforming, digital growth, and practical AI implementation. I am strongest where business pressure, execution complexity, and systems change all meet.
75+ People led across global engineering teams.
$250M+ Revenue accountability in direct leadership roles.
3 Global brands on a shared commerce platform.
99.99% Uptime through peak traffic and launch windows.
Recent MACH Alliance Ambassador Studio Wolf/Bear co-founder Seeking Full-time leadership roles Focus Systems, org design, AI, digital operations Mode Strategic and hands-on
Full-time fit
The roles I am most interested in.
I am looking for work where engineering leadership is close to product, revenue, platform change, and operating cadence, not isolated from the business.
Best environment
Complex work with real business pressure
Growth-stage, enterprise, or transformation-heavy environments where teams need clearer ownership, better systems, and faster learning loops.
Operating style
Strategic, practical, and close to the work
I can set direction with executives, build trust with teams, diagnose execution drag, and still get into the details when the work needs it.
Professional experience
Global Director of Digital Experience Engineering
VF Corporation — Denver, Colorado (Remote)
- Created and governed an AI operating model across three global brands and three capability areas: personalization, experimentation, and content generation.
- Built strategic technology partnerships with leadership teams across three global brands to align platform work with brand priorities.
- Led a 75-person global engineering organization across the US, Switzerland, and India supporting revenue-critical e-commerce platforms.
- Led a MACH-based headless commerce migration on Netlify edge architecture, reducing deploy times by 90% and shifting release cadence from bi-weekly to daily.
- Contributed to conversion rate gains across brand properties by driving Core Web Vitals optimization and reducing LCP by 50%+ across DTC digital experiences.
- Protected peak-period revenue by maintaining 99.99% uptime and zero revenue-impacting outages during Black Friday and holiday traffic windows.
- Accelerated content and experiment delivery by 30%+ by building shared platform capabilities across three brands while preserving brand autonomy.
MACH Alliance Ambassador
MACH Alliance
- Represent enterprise engineering perspectives within the MACH Alliance by translating modern architecture principles into practical adoption paths for large organizations.
- Spoke at conferences and meetups on MACH, composable architecture, and practical AI adoption.
- Participated in the first-ever MACH AI Exchange cohort, collaborating with enterprise leaders on architecture, integration, governance, and scalable, responsible AI.
Vice President of Technology
V SHRED — Las Vegas, Nevada (Remote)
- Owned technology strategy, budget, and P&L-aligned investment decisions for a $250M+ annual revenue DTC e-commerce business while scaling engineering, QA, and product to 85 people.
- Organized an 85-person Engineering, QA, and Product organization into six agile delivery squads with clear product ownership, QA support, and delivery accountability.
- Protected peak promotion periods for 1M+ daily pageviews by strengthening resilience engineering and operational readiness.
- Modernized a commerce platform supporting 1M+ daily pageviews by moving from a monolithic architecture to cloud-native, API-first SaaS, reducing infrastructure cost pressure and improving release speed.
- Built analytics and experimentation infrastructure for a $250M+ DTC business, giving product and marketing teams better data for prioritization and testing.
- Aligned engineering investment to aggressive 2x growth targets by developing multi-year technology roadmaps tied to business priorities.
Earlier leadership & architecture roles
Director of Technology
Soleer — San Francisco, California
- Owned architecture, hiring, and MVP delivery for an early-stage startup environment.
Principal Solution Architect
FIS Global — Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Led enterprise fintech architecture work inside a large-scale platform and services environment.
Senior Engineering Manager
XCentium — Irvine, California
- Managed delivery and engineering leadership across complex commerce and enterprise client work.
Lead Front-End Architect
UnitedHealth Group — La Crosse, Wisconsin
- Owned front-end architecture direction in a large healthcare platform environment.
Senior Front-End Developer
virtuwell by HealthPartners — Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Built and evolved patient-facing digital healthcare experiences in a regulated environment.