Adam Liscia

Software engineer · New York

I build apps and websites that real people use every day. Three of them are live right now: a home for Magic: The Gathering players, a TV channel for tabletop gaming, and a cocktail app for bartenders. Before software I taught math for seven years, and I still work in hospitality.

People who've joined Nerd Leagues · May 2024 – Oct 2026

What I've built

Nerd Leagues

Co-founder
Dec 2023 – present

A home base for people who play Magic: The Gathering.

Players use it to run their weekly leagues, record their games, see where they rank, and build and share decks. I co-founded it and wrote most of the code, and I built the phone app entirely on my own — it's on the App Store and Google Play.

Nerd Leagues phone app home screen: a Play button, an invite-code field and a list of recent games. Nerd Leagues life tracker: four players' life totals on one screen, each player using their own phone. A deck page in the Nerd Leagues phone app.
724members
1,413decks built
525games recorded
155articles

One thing I'm proud of: a deck-checking tool used to take 11 seconds to load. I rebuilt how it gets its data and got it down to a blink, which made it fast enough to open up to everyone instead of just signed-in members.

Nerd Leagues TV

Built solo
Jul 2026 – present

One channel for tabletop gaming videos.

Hand-picked YouTube and Twitch creators across six games, all playing in one place. You flip channels like a TV instead of digging through YouTube. I designed, built and launched it by myself, in 24 days.

Nerd Leagues TV in a browser: a large video player on the left and a channel guide on the right listing categories like Actual Play and Character Builds.
223creators
3,466videos
6games
24days to launch

Before it went public I caught a setting that, with one line of setup missing, would have left the site's admin controls open to anyone. I fixed it and tested every case before a single visitor arrived.

BarCraft

Built solo
Jun 2025 – present

A cocktail app for working bartenders.

Look up a recipe, save your own version, and scale it up for a big batch — fast enough to use in the middle of a shift. It's on the iPhone App Store, and I built every part of it myself.

BarCraft cocktail library on iPhone. BarCraft batch calculator: a recipe scaled up to 20 drinks, with the amount of each ingredient worked out. Editing a cocktail recipe in BarCraft.

The batch calculator is the math I use at my own bar job, where I run the batch cocktail program. I wrote it down once so nobody has to do it on a napkin again.

How I work

I finish things.

All three projects are live and in use, and two of them are in the app stores. Shipping is the part I care about most.

I explain things.

Seven years of teaching taught me to make hard ideas simple. I write down why I made each decision, so the next person doesn't have to guess.

I build for a busy night.

Behind a bar you learn that a system nobody can use under pressure isn't finished. I build software the same way.

Before this

I studied mathematics at Stony Brook and spent seven years teaching it — geometry and statistics for New York City public schools, then designing courses for homeschooled students, where I also taught some beginner Python in a STEM elective until Covid closed the school. I've tutored around a hundred students along the way.

I've worked in hospitality the whole time, and still do. It's why BarCraft exists.

  • B.S. Mathematics, Stony Brook University
  • Math teacher, NYC Department of Education
  • Data Science program, Flatiron School
  • Math teacher, School for Young Performers
  • Nerd Leagues, then BarCraft and Nerd Leagues TV

ToolsPython, TypeScript, React, React Native, Flask, FastAPI, MySQL, AWS

Get in touch

I'm looking for a software engineering job, remote or around New York.

Frontend, backend, or the whole thing. Email is the fastest way to reach me.