John Adams
@twitter employee #13. Master of scaling and security credited with "Fixing @twitter." Frequent speaker on Security and Scalability.
@twitter employee #13. Master of scaling and security credited with "Fixing @twitter." Frequent speaker on Security and Scalability.
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Experience
Bolt.com
Head of Information Security
Open Technology Fund
Advisory Board Member and Rapid Response Team
Responsible for reviewing grant proposals, which utilize US government funds to foster democracy and support Internet Freedom efforts worldwide.
troupeit.com
Founder
Founded an online conference and stage / media management system, written in React, Javascript, Go, and Ruby On Rails. The company currently has over 1500 subscribers and... more is self sufficient financially. The software has been used at large festivals and at Las Vegas casinos to coordinate events.
Groupiter
Advisor
Mentor
Retina Sound
CEO
Founded and organized an event production startup servicing the San Francisco Bay Area.
Exit
Security Team Lead / Senior Ops Engineer
As team lead for Twitter's first security team. I worked on SSL performance at scale (bringing Twitter to 100% SSL), PCI compliance, IT policy, cryptography, XSS/CSRF defense,... more malware defense, penetration analysis, security policy, security reviews, code reviews in Ruby/Rails, Java, Scala, PHP, Go, Python, and C. Took company through audit and IPO process, to publicly traded entity. Defended company through patent and other disputes. Led security orientation trainings for new hires.
CTO
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Projects
Simple Stage Management for Conferences and Theater
troupeIT is a simple, online stage management system for shows, conferences, meetings, and more. We help producers, performers, stage managers, and your tech… · More crew to create great shows together with ease.
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Achievements
I helped build Twitter and scaled the company from 50 servers to 250,000+ servers.
I've launched three startups in my career and currently run one from my home office.
Most recently I designed, got funding for, and built a wearable wireless-networked videogame/badge for Defcon 25 (https://dc25spqr.com). I raised over $30,000 on kickstarter and direct sponsorships. I designed the PCB and Schematic for that device -- I do hardware too!
Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
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