Adam Donovan
Engineering Advisor & Consultant at Various
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAdam Donovan is an engineering advisor and consultant in the San Francisco Bay Area with eight years of hands-on experience scaling product and infrastructure teams for fast-growing startups. He led Rippling’s IT and infrastructure engineering efforts—owning identity, device management, performance engineering, and early ATS/LMS products—helping translate an “HR+IT” vision into production systems. A former co-founder and CTO at Trefis, he built interactive business-data visualizations trusted by large financial clients, showing both product instincts and technical depth. Adam sits on boards and invests as an angel, bringing operator experience to early-stage companies while advising on architecture, hiring, and go-to-market technical strategy. Trained in physics and mathematics at MIT, he combines analytical rigor with practical execution and a willingness to get his hands dirty to ship results.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Physics & Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, Bachelor of Science in Physics & Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (12)
java7
administration7
prediction-model7
census6
parser4
finance4
science4
python4
parsing4
text-processing3
text-parser3
data-science2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sfbrigade/datasci-sba
Aug 2017 - Dec 2017
Solving problems with the Small Business Administration
Contributions:123 commits, 26 PRs, 63 pushes in 4 months
solvingsmall-businessadministrationproblemssolving-problems
sfbrigade/datasci-campaign-finance
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
C4SF Data Science Working Group Makes Campaign Finance More Transparent!
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
pythonsciencetransparentdataminingdata-science
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