Adam Abusang

I'm a software engineer from Ghana, now based in Albuquerque. I build software, but what keeps my attention is systems, the conditions that shape how things behave. That interest runs through my work, from infra to product to the messy human side of building.

Moving from Ghana to the US made that seeing sharper. The difference between cultures taught me that people don't behave in a vacuum; I was actively being told to think that no culture is good or bad it's just different. Well, why is it different? Behavior is shaped by structures, expectations, hierarchies and constraints. That stayed with me, and over time I started seeing same thing everywhere: in institutions, in teams and, in technical systems;

Map of where I grew upOur family home was on the side that was becoming more of a town. About a mile west of it, a river running south to north marks where thick forest begins; we crossed it to herd cattle in the forest with other families' kids, riding donkeys. Around the home we only grew maize for roasting fresh. About three miles east, in the village, is my grandparents' extended-family house, and the farms cluster around it: one right behind the house, one to the north next to the river, one to the southwest, and the dry-season garden slightly upstream to the west. The farms relied on rain, with maize as the main crop and the rest rotated. In the dry season we blocked part of the river for the garden, and when it really dried up we dug into the riverbed by hand.forestherding cattleon donkeysriver ↑~1 milehomemaize for roasting~3 milesriver →dry season: block the river,then dig into the riverbedgardengrandparents'villagefarms: rain-fed,maize, then rotatedN
when i say i grew up on a farm, this is closer to what i mean. not to scale.

That lens is a big part of how I work as an engineer. In software, constraints are all over: speed, space, interfaces, teammates, requirements and, tradeoffs; The intersection of some or all of these is where the real shape of a system is revealed. and I want to live there.

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