Adam Conroy
Co-Founder & CTO at Self-employed
Japan
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Top SchoolAdam Conroy is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneur with 12 years of engineering experience and a track record of building products from prototype to production. As Co-Founder & CTO of Jest and a former Senior Software Engineer at RStudio, he blends hands-on full-stack development with product-focused architecture and developer tooling. His open-source contributions to the popular RStudio IDE include editor spellchecking, UI fixes, and data viewer enhancements, reflecting attention to developer UX and polish. Past roles span game and web platforms where he led performance overhauls, WebGL frontends, and metric-driven feature design at companies like Proletariat and Zynga. He also creates technical content independently, signaling a talent for explaining complex systems and shaping developer communities. Based in Japan, Adam pairs entrepreneurial grit with deep practical experience in shipping robust, user-facing software.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of New Hampshire
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Github Skills (16)
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markdown-it8
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rstudio/rstudio
Aug 2018 - Apr 2021
RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:34 reviews, 137 commits, 114 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to enhancing the RStudio IDE by focusing on spellchecking functionality and updating the user interface. They added support for spellchecking various token types within the editor, ensuring comprehensive coverage of markdown documents, and corrected several UI-related issues. Furthermore, the user improved the data viewer component with features like column navigation controls, and updated the datatables and related styles.
integratedrstudiointegrated-development-environmentidedevelopment-environment
Alex33261/rstudio
Nov 2018 - May 2019
RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R
Contributions:25 commits in 5 months
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