About
Adam McClarin
Engineer, CISSP, and Reiki practitioner. Building Soulful Tech with intention.
The day starts in stillness. Before the laptop opens, before the first message lands, before the build resumes where it stopped the night before, there is a few minutes of nothing. Breath, quiet, and intention. That practice is not separate from the engineering. It is the reason the engineering looks the way it does.
Twenty years across leadership, IT, and information security, and for most of them I believed I was helping people. I was building the systems, closing the tickets, passing the audits, doing the work the way it was supposed to be done. Then it hit me. The systems were serving the org chart, the compliance checklist, the quarterly number. The person on the other side of the screen was an afterthought, if they were thought of at all. That is the moment Meraki is Love started, not as a business plan, but as a refusal to keep building that way.
So now the work answers to a different standard. VeloxSync gives K-12 teachers AI that moves the way teachers actually think, by grade band, against real state standards. Meraki Lingua opens conversation across 37 language communities, dialect by dialect, instead of flattening everyone into one voice. Canopy Guard hands a small business the kind of security posture report that enterprise clients pay consultants six figures to produce. The meditation and the Reiki practice are not a hobby that lives next to the technical work. They are the source of the pace, the attention, and the decision to stop and ask whether a feature actually serves the person using it. Soulful Tech is not a tagline I picked because it sounded warm. It is the only way I know how to build.
Credentials
CISSP
Certified Information Systems Security Professional
Azure AI Engineer
Microsoft Certified
Dual MS, Cybersecurity
University of Maryland Global Campus, 2018
MBA
Baruch College, 2014
20 Years
Leadership, IT, and information security
Published work
The Weight of the Mantle
Published
The AI Prompt Playbook
Published
Radical Endurance
Written as Aris Vala
Whispers of the Veil
Published