Adam Siemaszko
Implementations Lead at Slice · Maker of Meringo Labs
My main job is at Slice, where I’ve led restaurant implementations at more than 30 sites so far. Most of the work is making new software make sense to the people who have to use it. On my own time I build apps under Meringo Labs, from Western New York. Meringo, a music player for Android, is on Google Play. Meringo Listen, an audiobook player, is in closed testing, and Meringo Minutes, a note-taking app for meetings on the Mac, isn’t for sale yet.
“Every other player asked me to trust it. I wanted one that could prove it.”
Away from the screen I’m usually in the garden trying a new soil mix, or playing an old acoustic guitar.
Now
Meringo is on Google Play.
Meringo Listen is in closed testing.
Meringo Minutes, for the Mac, is not for sale yet.
Notes
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Don't trust the green light
Every audiophile player claims bit-perfect. Almost none of them let you check. So I built the checker into mine.
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Withdrawing the feature to find the one line
Google's Android Auto review kept failing my player. The fix was a single condition — but I had to pull the whole feature to see it.
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The bug I almost shipped
A stranger on Reddit caught it the night before launch. Holding cost me a day of momentum. It was the right call.
Work
One throughline: make the complex usable.
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The Steve Jobs era
Apple Store — sales floor
Learned the lesson everything since has been built on: technology only counts when the person in front of you actually gets it. The product is the moment it makes sense to a human.
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Enablement
Corporate training programs
Built the programs companies use to get whole teams up to speed on complicated systems — turning dense, intimidating software into something people can operate with confidence.
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Restaurant tech
POS migrations & vendor operations
Ran full Square→Toast point-of-sale migrations end to end — hardware, configuration, owner and staff training — and managed external vendors and MSPs to strict SLAs.
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Now · Slice
Implementations Lead
Deploying restaurant software into the field — more than 30 shops so far — where "it works on my machine" means nothing and "it works in a busy kitchen on a Friday night" is the only bar that counts.
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Now · Meringo Labs
Meringo, Meringo Listen & Meringo Minutes
Solo-built three apps — an audiophile music player, paid and on Google Play; an audiobook player, in closed testing; and a note-taking app for meetings on the Mac, not for sale yet — the part I do entirely on my own, directing AI and holding the output to a receipts standard.
What I build
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Android
Meringo
A bit-perfect music player for Android DAPs and audiophile phones. Plays your local files and your Jellyfin or Subsonic library, has a real parametric EQ workbench with measured headphone corrections by oratory1990 (via OPRA), and shows you exactly what happens to your audio on the way to your DAC — then lets you prove it. 7-day free trial, then $9.99 once. No subscription, no ads.
Get it on Google Play → meringo.app → See a real receipt — verify it yourself →
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Android
Meringo Listen
A premium Android audiobook player for people who own their books. First-class Audiobookshelf support alongside local M4B, MP3 and FLAC, a real 10-band voice EQ, pitch-corrected speed up to 3×, and per-narrator EQ memory. In closed testing. $14.99 once — no subscription, no ads, no tracking.
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Mac
Meringo Minutes
A note-taking app for meetings, on the Mac. Not for sale yet.
Work with me
I bring two decades getting complex technology to make sense to the people using it, and a shipped, paid product that proves its own claims, with six public receipts across three DACs. If you're building something where shipping fast and being provably right both matter, I'd like to hear about it.