Adam Nelson

Experience

Software Engineer Manager 2017 - Present (about 9 years)

At AWS Developer Tools building the future tools needed to deliver software safely, securely, and most importantly at scale. If you're interested in software development or... more

Factr

CTO 2016 - 2017 (over 1 year)

Led development for Factr - a customized, real-time knowledge-sharing platform for experts in large international and humanitarian organizations.

Exit

Fly Labs

Director of Engineering 2012 - 2015 (about 3 years)

Capitalized the work of a small, high quality iOS team into 4 Apple-featured video apps. Integrated development best practices into an existing set of codebases. Migrated... more

Kili

Founder/CEO/CTO 2013 - 2014 (over 1 year)

Founded a cloud infrastructure startup in East Africa. Based out of Nairobi, the team supports many of the region’s newest tech startups with a modern OpenStack-based Infrastructure... more

Chemonics International

Consultant 2013 (2 months)

Short-term assignment to transform East Africa Trade Hub from a read-only site to a community platform to facilitate stakeholder engagement.

YipitData

CTO 2010 - 2012 (about 2 years)

Built a team of 14 developers (25 employees overall) via open source and international recruitment for the largest daily deal aggregator in the US, and guided the technology... more

Varud.com

Founder 2008 - 2009 (8 months)

An ad hoc social network that allowed people to communicate around future events.

Exit

ForSaleByOwner.com

CTO 2001 - 2008 (over 6 years)

Built a team of 8 developers and helped create one of the first and largest real estate websites at the time. Guided the company from initial startup to successful integration... more

Refco

Senior Systems Manager 2000 - 2001 (over 1 year)

Managed production server infrastructure for the leading commodities & futures broker on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Points of presence were located in Tokyo, Bermuda,... more

ML Integrated Systems

Engineer 1998 - 2000 (about 1 year)

Developed intranet applications for Fortune 500 clients including Citibank, WorldCom, AT&T, and Refco (hired). Projects included designing and implementing ordering systems,... more

Employee

Fly Labs, Factr, Refco, ForSaleByOwner.com, ML Integrated Systems, Varud.com, YipitData, Chemonics International, Kili, Amazon Web Services

Projects

Factr

A new kind of social network for organizing and sharing info

Launched beta to pilot teams.

With Chris van der Walt, Michael Grossman, Logan Head, Christoph Ungemach, Jenn Shreve, Sheerly Avni, steven lorenzo, Phil Kennedy, Yaakov Beiss, Henry Steinitz, Brian Jeong

Education

About

Achievements

Delivered 2 startups to exit, founded Kenya's first cloud infrastructure startup, part of team that built 4 Apple-featured iOS apps, built numerous top-tier software development teams from the ground up, and along with the tech experience have always been a leader in product development/management.

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Infrastructure Software Development Product Development Product Management Software Architecture

Locations

London Berlin Zurich Vienna Seattle

Adam Nelson

Software Development Manager at @amazon Alumnus of @factr @kili @yipit @tribune-interactive @forsalebyowner-com

Delivered 2 startups to exit, founded Kenya's first cloud infrastructure startup, part of team that built 4 Apple-featured iOS apps, built numerous top-tier software development teams from the ground up, and along with the tech experience have always been a leader in product development/management.

Software Development Manager at @amazon
Alumnus of @factr @kili @yipit @tribune-interactive @forsalebyowner-com