Austin
Adams

Led a 10+ person team writing smart contract protocols in rust on Solana.

Stabilized the core NFT infrastructure of Solana, which allowed it to scale to be the largest NFT protocol (30 +mm) in the world by the number of NFTs and over 1.5 billion in total sales volume.

Designed and led the implementation of over 10 different protocols for NFTs and NFT utility and Token distribution on Solana.

Mentored Exec team in technology strategy.

Mentored the entire eng team in SRE, Security, and Hybrid cloud systems.

Designed and built a new data availability indexing system for NFTs on Solana.

Moving from team to team solving problems, building teams and accelerating transformation.

• Implemented best practices, automation of global cloud infrastructure.
• Created novel auth-n/auth-z migration technology such as service mesh like side cars. Allowing huge teams with many services to migrate quickly to new paradigms.
• Helped Design and lead IAM implementation of an enterprise entitlement system.
• Managing a distributed team doing super stack (VM level all the way through frontend)
• Helping mentor frontend/electron teams

Leading the technology and science initiative to bring a family of animal health and traceability products to the market. Providing solutions architecture and engineering across B2B and B2C products. Building and mentoring teams of technologists to support the wide product base being brought to market. Overseeing iot device manufacturing and collaboration between hardware and software teams.

• Completed full migration from vertically scaled infrastructure to horizontally scalable cloud native environments.
• Managed multiple offshore contracting teams.
• Lead backend, frontend, blockchain teams through implementation.
• Invented, and lead implementation of connected hardware devices.

Mentoring developers, exploring tough problems and architecting solutions, analyzing data and patterns to bring value to the business and finally destroying complexity with the Gold hammer of YAGNI (You Ain't Gonna Need It)

• Built Scala Web Services and data analysis applications
• Implemented Javascript/Angular best practices for entire team.
• Established successful CI/CD infrastructure allowing teams to iterate and deploy faster.
• Created a culture of improvement via peer review and continual learning.

Successfully organized a small development practice into a viable business through the use of modern software development tools, contracted resources , and traditional software design patterns. Successfully mentored other developers from other paradigms into productive contributors to the current project. Modernized legacy web applications in record time while maintaining backwards compatibility. Designed, Developed and launched a full feature learning platform in 2 months with a increasing ROI that has surpassed the 100% mark.

• Created & Maintained applications that scale to 300,000+ users.
• Deployed and scaled Node.js, Ruby On Rails, LAMP Stack applications.
• Modernized Private and Government web applications.
• Created solutions leveraging AWS cloud infrastructure. AWS S3, AWS Cloud Front, AWS OpsWorks, other AWS technologies.
• Successfully scaled application infrastructure out on DigitalOceans cloud.
• Managed teams, Mentored Developers

Optimized web application infrastructure for both internal and external clientele. Created modernization solutions to legacy software that provided stability, reporting and extended functionality. Successfully scaled out an email distribution application to increase the ROI of an email based marketing application. Successfully mentored less experienced developers and then delegated to form productive teams.

• Created modern solutions to legacy software problems.
• Mentored entry level developers

Graduated with honors. Completed several web application specific independent studies. Interned with local businesses to create modern software solutions to increase organization within operations.