The crew
About
Tech Hop Studios is code culture — nerd-first, human-second, corporate-never.
Different on purpose
Solutions without the consultant cosplay
Creativity
We chase real fixes — weird constraints welcome.
Sharp picks
Right stack for the job — not whatever’s trending on Twitter.
Fast loops
Ship useful slices early so you’re not waiting on a waterfall fantasy.
Backup vocals
We answer after launch — relationships beat transactions.
Founder mode
Adam Becker
I’m Adam — full-stack engineer based in Eugene, Oregon. I’ve spent decades turning messy business problems into software that teams actually want to use.
Tech Hop Studios exists because I like building with people who care about their craft — whether that’s coffee ops, climbing gyms, farms, or giant education platforms. If you need someone who can speak exec and still read the stack trace, we’ll get along.
// Not for hire: miracle timelines, “just replicate Netflix,” or politics dressed up as architecture reviews.
Timeline
History
A rotating sampler of where this studio’s sound came from — industries, scale, and lessons learned.
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Aug 2023
Founded Tech Hop Studios
Hung out the shingle as an LLC so clients get direct access to senior engineering — no bait-and-switch staffing model.
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Aug 2022
Operating at massive scale
Led work in education tech focused on performance and uptime when traffic spikes hit hard.
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Feb 2019
Apps for coffee
Directed development for drink production tooling used daily across thousands of locations — real-world reliability beats demo-day applause.
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Sep 2015
Started managing teams
Shifted from solo contributor to leading engineers — learned delivery is as much psychology as syntax.
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Sep 2010
Optimized an entire department
Rebuilt processes and tooling to cut costly mistakes — saved serious money without layoffs.
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Jan 2003
First freelance client
Started shipping web apps for paying customers — learned estimation the hard way (sorry, early clients).
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Feb 1998
First lines of JavaScript
Fell into JS before it was cool — the obsession never really stopped.