Testimonials
Recommendations from colleagues across Segmed (YC W20), Xilinx (now AMD), Salesforce, and research. All sourced from LinkedIn.
Institutional Track Record
Accelerators: Y Combinator W20, Alchemist Batch 21, StartX Winter 2020, Stanford Ignite, Stanford d.School, Stanford GSB Venture Studio
Investors ($20M raised): Blumberg Capital, Mighty Capital, iGan Capital, Expeditions Fund, Engine Health, Advocate Health
Industry: Salesforce (via Twin Prime acquisition), Xilinx (Zynq — first ARM-based FPGA), Cambridge University Computer Lab, FreeBSD Project (youngest committer, 2006)
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Adam is technically skilled, practical, passionate about building interesting products, and overall was a great person to work with. As a manager Adam was open, easy to talk to, and always willing to share his ideas. He set his team up for success, trusted them to do good work, and was always happy to help with anything ranging from debugging code to high level design discussion. He thinks strategically about the longer term business value of each feature and is happy to share this vision with the team so everyone can understand why their work is important.
Connor Ryan
· Senior Software Engineer
· Fullstory (prev. Segmed)
Adam is tenacious about building something amazing. I like that he is extremely technical, but also a great leader who asks questions and a deep thinker. He can build a product, thinks about fast iterations and understands growth, big markets and scale. If you get a chance to work with him go for it!
Daniel Kivatinos
· CEO and Co-Founder
· JustPaid
We worked together for 2 years at Xilinx. We were responsible for architecting and delivering software components to the product our team was responsible for. He showed a great balance of highly technical and communication skills on top of a great team spirit. By sharing knowledge and mentoring others through code reviews and impromptu conversations, he improved the quality of results our team delivered.
Christina Smith
· Accelerator Platforms Silicon Engineer
· Google (prev. Xilinx)
Adam was the technical lead of my team at Xilinx. He went above and beyond as a technical lead and mentor. He provided comprehensive and extremely helpful feedback on code reviews to the entire team. He is a very effective communicator and often presented technical topics to the group. I would highly recommend him as a technical manager.
Portia Stephens
· Software Engineer (Kernel)
· Canonical (prev. Xilinx)