Adam Nelson
About Adam Nelson
Technology leader with over 15 years experience designing and successfully deploying software at scale (startups to Fortune 500, New York to emerging markets). Dedicated to building high-calibre product-focused teams and pioneering the application of innovative technologies. * Software Development Manager at Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/), leader at CodeStar, the AWS service for developers to build and launch software safely at scale. Previously at Alexa building out ML evaluation and deployment systems. * CTO of Factr (https://factr.com), an intelligence product that gives decision-makers their own view of the world via media aggregation and the curatorial tools to narrow down the overwhelming number of inputs. * Founder of Kili (http://kili.io), a public cloud for East African developers based in Kenya. * Engineer at Fly Labs, capitalized the work of a small, high quality iOS team into 4 Apple-featured video apps. * CTO of Yipit Data, assembled a team of 14 developers (25 employees overall) via open source and international recruitment. Worked with the team to develop a robust Amazon-based Python site that processed 100k+ items from thousands of websites and generated over 20M unique targeted emails per month. Yipit is now a profitable group of 100+ employees. * Director of Engineering at Performline, with a small team of 4, created a MongoDB-based Ad Compliance Monitoring Platform. This was one of the first large-scale MongoDB systems to be deployed in production. * CTO of Forsalebyowner.com, assembled a team of 8 developers and designers to help create one of the largest real estate sites on the Internet at the time. Guided the integration of the company with Tribune Interactive after it was acquired. Previously, co-chair of the AFRINIC Policy Development Working Group and organizer of the Nairobi Python and OpenStack User Groups and a member of the Nairobi Linux User Group. You can email me at adam at varud.com.