Hi! I'm Adam Lui, a Software Engineer based in the USA

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About Me

I'm a full stack engineer on Spotify's Cost Engineering (FinOps) team, part of our Platform org. I build internal tools that help engineers and leaders understand what we spend on cloud infrastructure and AI tools, and the carbon emissions that come with it. That work ranges from company-wide views with guardrails for each business unit to drift tracking that shows cost leads which teams and projects are driving changes.

Recently, I improved our cost plugin for Backstage, attributing OpenAI and Anthropic usage to teams so engineers can see where their AI spend goes and how to optimize and set alerts on it. I've also worked on Spotify Reserved, building tools that help event organizers process event data and manage ticketing.

Since October 2025, I've written most of my code with Claude and Codex. I'm also interested in public service, so if you're working on a role or project that makes public services better, I'd love to hear about it.

Experience

Where I've worked and what I've built

Oct 2022 – Present

Full Stack Engineer, Cost & Climate Engineering

Spotify · New York, NY (Remote)

  • React.js
  • Figma
  • GCP

Jan 2022 – Oct 2022

Backend Engineer, Alexa Shopping

Amazon · Seattle, WA

  • AWS Step Functions
  • Amazon ECS

Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

Streaming Data & Platform Engineer, Kinesis Data Analytics

Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Seattle, WA (Remote)

  • Streaming Data
  • Kubernetes
  • Apache Flink

Sep 2019 – Jan 2021

Frontend Engineer, Card Tech

Capital One · Chicago, IL

  • Angular
  • React.js
  • Amazon CloudFront
  • Amazon Route 53

Feb 2018 – Sep 2019

Data Engineer, Strategy

Capital One · McLean, VA

  • Apache Spark
  • Amazon EMR

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology

MS, Computer Science

Specialization in Machine Learning

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

BS, Chemical Engineering