Adam Derewecki

Experience

Exit

Software Engineer 2017 - Present (almost 9 years)

- Tech stack: Python 3/React/AWS
- Tech lead for self-driving in-ride experience
- Built in-ride tablet app to obviate human safety driver
- Built Remote Customer... more

Snapdocs

Product Engineer 2016 - 2017 (about 1 year)

- Tech stack: Rails/Bootstrap/jQuery/AWS
- Scaled Stripe “VendorPay” product 10x

KitSplit

Advisor 2017 - Present (over 9 years)

Everlane

Senior Software Engineer 2015 - 2016 (11 months)

Contract position while bootstrapping CameraLends

- Tech stack: Rails/AWS

NextRoll

Senior Software Engineer 2015 (4 months)

Contract position while bootstrapping CameraLends
- Tech stack: Python/Backbone/AWS

Hack Fund II

Mentor

Hackers/Founders

Mentor

Exit

CameraLends

Founder 2013 - 2017 (about 4 years)

- Bootstrapped to profitability with 2 employees, acquired by KitSplit
- Tech stack: Rails/Bootstrap/jQuery/Heroku

Employee

NextRoll, Everlane, Snapdocs, CameraLends, Lyft

Advisor

KitSplit

Mentor

Hack Fund II, Hackers/Founders

Projects

CameraLends iOS App

A peer-to-peer lending community for camera gear

Product Manager · CameraLends is a peer-to-peer lending community of trusted photographers and filmmakers across the United States. Since 2013,… · More

With Alex Pretzlav

Education

About

Achievements

Results-driven senior software engineer with 16+ years of experience in building and scaling web applications using Python, Ruby, React, and AWS.

Some notable highlights:
- tech lead for the self-driving in-ride experience at Lyft, where I architected and led team of SWEs to launch multiple full-stack applications
- scaled Snapdocs' "VendorPay" product 10x, launched initial quality control product
- founded and bootstrapped CameraLends to profitability (acquired by KitSplit)
- doubled ApartmentList's traffic in 8 months as EM for web team
- early engineer at Yelp, promoted to tech lead for team of 8 SWEs

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Ruby on Rails AWS Javascript Ruby Bootstrapping Python React.js

Q&A

What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Adam Derewecki

Experienced senior software engineer/tech lea (16+ yrs) skilled in Python, Javascript, Ruby, AWS. Worked at Lyft, Snapdocs, founded CameraLends, early Yelp.